Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

How pro-Russian 'yacht' propaganda influenced US debate over Ukraine aid
BBC News.com ^ | December 20, 2023 | Olga Robinson, Shayan Sardarizadeh, and Mike Wendling

Posted on 12/21/2023 12:05:52 PM PST by Timber Rattler

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 121-140 next last
To: Timber Rattler
Hersh exposed the war crimes of the Biden regime despite being a leftist. He did so because has some integrity.

You, on the other hand, the are defending the regime, making any of anyone with ounce of decency and patriotism in the body.

21 posted on 12/21/2023 12:29:50 PM PST by Kazan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Timber Rattler

Burisma-Biden corruption is a bigger story and it’s supported by facts, not propaganda.


22 posted on 12/21/2023 12:31:00 PM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jimwatx
Do you take us for fools?

Yes.

Research by Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren, disinformation researchers at Clemson University, shows that DC Weekly was started by John Mark Dougan, a former US Marine and Florida police officer who moved to Russia in 2016.

Mr Dougan spent three years as a deputy with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's office, then after he left in 2009 he started a website spreading rumours about his former employers.

Since moving to Russia he has reinvented himself as a journalist covering the invasion of Ukraine, and has spread a number of false and baseless claims - for example that Russia was attempting to destroy biological weapons labs.

DC Weekly, the Clemson researchers discovered, is full of news stories copied from other sites and rewritten by artificial intelligence engines. The site's "reporters" have fake names along with headshots copied from elsewhere on the internet.

Mixed in with the rewritten stories - apparently designed to give the site a sheen of legitimacy - are dubious original reports.

23 posted on 12/21/2023 12:31:43 PM PST by Timber Rattler ("To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Timber Rattler; BobL; JonPreston
Russian missile turns Ukrainian market into fiery, blackened ruin strewn with bodies

The Associated Press ^ | September 6, 2023 | MSTYSLAV CHERNOV

Posted on 09/07/2023 3:33:12 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4180637/posts

====================

Strikes put Ukraine in darkness; missiles cross into Poland [killing 2 Poles!]
Associated Press ^ | November 15, 2022 | JOHN LEICESTER

Posted on 11/15/2022, 2:24:26 PM by Timber Rattler
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4109351/posts

So Comrade Putin has now killed two Polish citizens with his vengeance missiles inside Poland. And Moldova is now affected too.

1 posted on 11/15/2022, 2:24:26 PM by Timber Rattler

==============================

I wonder when the snek is going to stop relying on American State Media for his "news", after getting burned by the fake "Russia Bombs Market" story in 2022?

Nope, the snek is STILL relying on fake American State Media.

24 posted on 12/21/2023 12:33:00 PM PST by kiryandil (The Biden: "Zelensky, we need to sit down and have a talk.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: jimwatx

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4205002/posts?page=24#24


25 posted on 12/21/2023 12:33:41 PM PST by kiryandil (The Biden: "Zelensky, we need to sit down and have a talk.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Eagles6

Hersh: Zelensky and His Team Embezzled at Least $400 million of US Aid
https://21stcenturywire.com/2023/04/13/hersh-zelensky-and-his-team-embezzled-at-least-400-million-of-us-aid/

I find Seymour Hersh to be a credible source. Certainly more credible than the clowns claiming otherwise.


26 posted on 12/21/2023 12:33:46 PM PST by jimwatx
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Timber Rattler

Meanwhile, leftists refuse to allow a full audit of money spent. Why?


27 posted on 12/21/2023 12:33:47 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Timber Rattler

Surely you’re leading the push to see an audit of every single penny given to Ukraine, right?

Nobody with any objectivity believes you at all.


28 posted on 12/21/2023 12:34:29 PM PST by MTBobcat (The “rank-and-file” are as corrupted as their leadership.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jimwatx; Timber Rattler
review my posted link, which is about how the snekbot relies on lying American State Media for his talking points.  
29 posted on 12/21/2023 12:34:55 PM PST by kiryandil (The Biden: "Zelensky, we need to sit down and have a talk.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Timber Rattler

I never believed the yacht story. Nor the “bioweapons labs” story.*

The sad thing is, every Ukrainian politician has run on an anti-corruption platform, and the people vote for that, but each new leader is only more or slightly less corrupt than the one who came before.

Zelensky is no exception. He was corrupt before he won election, and I have no doubt he still is. See Pandora Papers (a huge scandal in Ukraine at the time):

https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle

Mind you, there’s plenty of corruption in Russia, too.

*Yes, there were labs for surveillance of emerging infectious diseases. Virtually every country in the world has those. In countries where the government is not capable of reliably running these on their own, we help fund and oversee them. It hardly makes them “bioweapons labs”.


30 posted on 12/21/2023 12:35:06 PM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kiryandil

Timber Rattler is an obvious shill and not a very good one at that.


31 posted on 12/21/2023 12:35:49 PM PST by jimwatx
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Timber Rattler

Trump is American.

Zelensky is not.

Your priorities fall in line with Biden, DeSantis, and their globalist donors and not the USA.

Go peddle your warmongering elsewhere, Chickenhawk.


32 posted on 12/21/2023 12:36:53 PM PST by MTBobcat (The “rank-and-file” are as corrupted as their leadership.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Timber Rattler
Does that apply to Trump too?

Trump is cruising the nomination. Again. How does that make you feel?

33 posted on 12/21/2023 12:41:07 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: jimwatx; Timber Rattler

Worse yet, he makes a claim but doesn’t bother to offer up any proof to substantiate the claim he is making.


34 posted on 12/21/2023 12:42:53 PM PST by Robert DeLong
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: kiryandil

So the BBC is American State Media?


35 posted on 12/21/2023 12:43:12 PM PST by Timber Rattler ("To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Timber Rattler

You know what I don’t get with these dumbasses who just swallow Russian propaganda without even once applying some critical thinking to it?

They never ask questions when THIS kind of stuff is broadcast by the Russians either...

https://packaged-media.redd.it/6v8a5npp2jq91/pb/m2-res_480p.mp4

For the benefit of the people who’d buy three London Bridges if a Russkie propaganda website was flogging it... This is a genuine Russian TV news team reporting on the counting at the referendum to annex a Ukrainian Oblast.

The person doing the count on camera is LITERALLY holding up unused ballot sheets one by one to the TV camera before putting them in the “yes” pile. Weirdly, the news reporter, the camera crew and even the election official thought nothing of their fraud literally being admitted live on Russian television.

This news segment was for domestic consumption. If one’s charitable, one can think of many ways to defend the Russian domestic audience - maybe they’re still watching on old black-and-white cathode ray televisions or it’s analogue broadcast so they can’t pause the feed and see what’s blindingly obvious... which is, the separatists completely faked the result.

Less charitable interpretations could be, the audience is illiterate, the audience wasn’t paying attention, the audience DID see the blatant fraud and could tell it was blatant fraud but wasn’t ever going to question it anyway. Or, maybe, as one Ukrainian put it early on in the conflict, “they’re really f***ing stupid”.

Question is, what’s the standard pro-Russian freeper shill’s excuse for not questioning Russia’s bull no matter how obviously bull it is?

Are they: Inattentive, illiterate, or just plain stupid?


36 posted on 12/21/2023 12:51:54 PM PST by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe" - Holmes to Watson, A Scandal in Bohemia)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Timber Rattler

Are you guys REALLY still using Snopes for your ‘fact-checking’?


37 posted on 12/21/2023 12:53:17 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Timber Rattler; Allegra; cabojoe; JonPreston; BobL; jimwatx
So the BBC is American State Media?

Everyone on FR knows that you likes you your daily BBC, snek.

38 posted on 12/21/2023 12:54:05 PM PST by kiryandil (The Biden: "Zelensky, we need to sit down and have a talk.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: dforest; kiryandil; JonPreston
Things are bad in America and we are broke. That is the reasoning. People are also sick of the little coke head with his hand out every couple months.

Exactly. I don’t give a rat’s posterior if Zelensky bought two yachts or whether Olena gets to do her $40-50K Paris shopping spree; I just want *our* money to stop funding this fiasco. I want Biden’s and Zelensky’s grubby hands out of my wallet. Enough.

39 posted on 12/21/2023 12:55:37 PM PST by Allegra (Less propaganda would be appreciated.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: Timber Rattler
Don't Care.

Does Zelensky Launder US Taxpayer Funds to Bribe The Biden Crime Family and the Marxist Democrat Deep Swamp?

Resoundingly

YES!

Screw Ukraine.

40 posted on 12/21/2023 12:57:53 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 121-140 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson