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Hacked Russian Files Reveal Propaganda Agreement with China
The Intercept ^ | December 30, 2022 | Mara HvistendahlAlexey Kovalev, Mara Hvistendahl, Alexey Kovalev

Posted on 12/31/2022 10:55:49 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans

HACKED RUSSIAN FILES REVEAL PROPAGANDA AGREEMENT WITH CHINA

In 2021, government officials and media executives from Russia and China discussed the exchange of news and social content.

Mara HvistendahlAlexey KovalevMara Hvistendahl, Alexey Kovalev December 30 2022, 7:27 a.m. RUSSIAN OFFICIALS PUSHED the lies first.

Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, a Russian defense ministry spokesperson resuscitated debunked claims about a U.S.-funded bioweapons program in the region, accusing Ukrainian labs of experimenting with bat coronaviruses in an attempt to spark “the covert spread of deadliest pathogens.”

Disinformation is an old Russian government tactic. But this time Russia had help. Within days, Chinese officials and media outlets had picked up the lies and were amplifying and expanding on the biolabs yarn. The Chinese Communist Party tabloid Global Times created two splashy spreads, one sourced in part to Sputnik News, the other featuring a quote from Russian President Vladimir Putin. “What is the U.S. hiding in the biolabs discovered in Ukraine?” it screamed.

“China jumped on the biolabs conspiracy theory,” said Katja Drinhausen, an analyst with the Mercator Institute of China Studies in Berlin. Chinese officials and media outlets had spent the preceding months pushing the notion that the pandemic might have originated in a lab accident outside China. “It was like, here’s the perfect conspiracy theory coming out of Russia to support our ‘everywhere but China’ main talking point of the last year,” she said.

Since the war broke out in February, experts have been struck by a convergence in Russian and Chinese media narratives. While some of the convergence was likely happenstance, occurring when storylines aided both governments’ goals, documents found in a trove of hacked emails from Russia state broadcaster VGTRK show that China and Russia have pledged to join forces in media content by inking cooperation agreements at the ministerial level.


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1 posted on 12/31/2022 10:55:49 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Waiting to see the Propaganda Agreement with the U.S. media....


2 posted on 12/31/2022 10:57:25 AM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Disinformation:it’s not only for Russia and China,anymore.


3 posted on 12/31/2022 11:00:11 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

It’s meaningless when you can’t trust a damn thing our own government says or does.


4 posted on 12/31/2022 11:00:53 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Did they find the crachead son of of Xi Jinping’s laptop?


5 posted on 12/31/2022 11:05:30 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

What country are you from?


6 posted on 12/31/2022 11:11:33 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

“We will liberate our land. We will win this war – I am sure of it. We will restore freedom and security to all Ukrainians, no matter where they live.”
–Zelenskyy.


7 posted on 12/31/2022 11:12:50 AM PST by Sunsong
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
A bilateral agreement signed July 2021 makes clear that cooperating on news coverage and narratives is a big goal for both governments. At a virtual summit that month, leading Russian and Chinese government and media figures discussed dozens of news products and cooperative ventures, including exchanging news content, trading digital media strategies, and co-producing television shows. The effort was led by Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development, Communication and Mass Media, and by China’s National Radio and Television Administration.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23558638-china-russia-media-cooperation-agreement-july-2021

8 posted on 12/31/2022 11:15:34 AM PST by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Like I am going to believe anything from a leftist deep state rag like this.

Everything I see that tries to justify the US doing anything anywhere in the world while ignoring the mess on our Southern Border, I take to be more FBI/OGA/deepstate spam bots.


9 posted on 12/31/2022 11:17:00 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
A scab if key words and phrases show that this is deep state OGA/MI-6 propaganda. Here are some of the one's that stick out: RUSSIAN OFFICIALS PUSHED the lies first ...resuscitated debunked claims ... Disinformation ...Russian .... Within days, Chinese officials ... lies ....the biolabs yarn...Chinese Communist Party tabloid Global Times created two splashy spreads... biolabs conspiracy theory...an analyst with the Mercator Institute ... here’s the perfect conspiracy ... Russia ... Since the war broke out in February, experts....convergence in Russian and Chinese media narratives....trove of hacked emails from Russia ....ministerial level.

We have heard all of this tripe before along with the southern border is under complete control.

The only word in all of this that has the ring of truth is "lies"

10 posted on 12/31/2022 11:23:31 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

A scan of key words...


11 posted on 12/31/2022 11:23:56 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

“Hacked Russian Files Reveal Propaganda Agreement with China”

I remember when Rush used to show something like 5 (or more) US news outlets with IDENTICAL statements, like “Gravitas”, a word they only used ONCE, which was when Bush Jr. picked Cheney. So, I’d say, even if true, this certainly is NOT the first ‘propaganda agreement’ that I’ve heard of.


12 posted on 12/31/2022 11:27:37 AM PST by BobL
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

“Hacked Russian Files Reveal Propaganda Agreement with China”

By the way, is it part of the file batch that said Trump ‘colluded’ with Russia, or the part of the file batch that said Hunter’s Laptop was Fake News, planted by Russia?


13 posted on 12/31/2022 11:28:39 AM PST by BobL
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Posting something that can be seen as insulting to Russia and Red China means you are going to get a long thread of hate for America responses.


14 posted on 12/31/2022 11:51:45 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
Nonsense, foreigner


15 posted on 12/31/2022 11:51:50 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: ansel12
Posting something that can be seen as insulting to Russia and Red China

the problem is that it is filled with deep state narrative and trigger words, is from a left wing deep state rage founded by the guy who founded paypal, and it insults any sentient persons intelligence.

16 posted on 12/31/2022 12:23:28 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans; ansel12; AndyJackson
Only persons of Puny Intelligence would post Propaganda from "The Intercept" like this, or try to cover for it when called out.

Keywords expose this crap in an instant.

17 posted on 12/31/2022 12:33:25 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: AndyJackson

Any thread that can be seen as insulting for Russia draws a massive hate-America response from America haters.

Such information is seen as what you describe as “trigger words” to those devoted to Russia and/or their current dictator.


18 posted on 12/31/2022 12:34:10 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: BobL
In the words of JR Ewing, "once you give up integrity the rest is a piece of cake."

Problem for all these sleezeball liars is that they have now an unshakeable widespread well-deserved reputation for lack of integrity. We need believe nothing they say nor trust anything they do.

19 posted on 12/31/2022 12:35:43 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: ansel12
Yeah, trigger words like "narrative" and "debunked" and the name of anything that resembles another corrupt deepstate imperialist cover Non-Governemental organization like the "Mercator Institute of China Studies in Berlin" which I am not even going to bother to look up. [It's a logical fallacy - an argument to a supreme authority that doesn't actually exist].

IOWs this is utter bafflegab garbage intended to scam a person of low-IQ.

20 posted on 12/31/2022 12:40:06 PM PST by AndyJackson
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