For many years Russia has been running a world-wide propaganda operation via social media. As Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other social network outlets finally take firm steps to suspend their operations we are seeing the entire operation fall apart. One telling result is that typical keyword pushed every week by these propaganda accounts on social media have fallen out of the high rankings - reducing the influence greatly of the false information being pushed by Russia whether it be about the Ukraine conflict, Covid misinformation, or the "Freedom Convoys". All these talking points from Russia all had the intent of undermining western democracies and turning people against each other. Another example is that a majority of earlier BLM material was astro-turfed out of Russia -- which means that Russia was attempting to cause conflict & unrest in our streets. ‘Russia’s propaganda operation is flailing worldwide’ as Twitter cracks down on astroturfing: report https://www.rawstory.com/russia-propaganda/ Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to have overestimated his ability to control the narrative over his invasion of Ukraine, according to a new report by NBC News. "Russia's propaganda operation is flailing worldwide. It doesn't appear like it had a plan for the war not being over with by now," NBC News reporter Ben Collins posted to Twitter. "Russian propaganda just didn't have a plan for the war going this badly. I've been covering it for years and have never seen them caught this far off guard." Collins' analysis came after he and Natasha Korecki reported that "Twitter has banned more than 100 accounts that pushed the pro-Russian hashtag #IStandWithPutin for participating in 'coordinated inauthentic behavior,' days after the hashtag trended on Twitter amid the invasion in Ukraine." The two said the inauthentic activity was discovered by Marc Owen Jones, an assistant professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar. “People throw the term bots around a lot, but what we saw here was lots of accounts demonstrating inauthentic activity and astroturfing,” Jones said. “They’re not bots. They’re a lot harder to check than that. Imagine a call center setup. Think of the amount of damage you can do.” The report comes as Russia blocked Facebook in the country. Andrew Gonzalez, an analyst with the digital analysis firm Omelas says it may be too late for Putin to shift the sympathy for Ukraine. “Russia isn’t getting the same impact of its audiences as it historically has gotten,” Gonzalez said. “The audience is certainly believing more so the Western portrayal that it’s a tragedy for Ukraine and Russia is the aggressor. That narrative is quite firm right now.”
One after another -- the social media outlets are cutting off Russia -- and also censoring any of their pro-Putin disinformation that does leak through. TikTok Blocks New Content in Russia Over ‘Fake News’ Law https://www.thedailybeast.com/tiktok-halts-new-content-in-russia-over-fake-news-law
Reminds me of the old line where some guy is interviewed about his career and life: "What do you want to people to say about you when you are lying in your coffin and they are looking down at you?" And the guy says. "I want them to say, My God! he is still moving."
Russian pigs are recruiting Syrian fighters. It is ugly but does not have a good look to it for the Russians. Yes, a third of Russian troops there are conscript kids who are lost in space. But the units they are attached to are Russia's best. And if they need to bring in Syrian shiite that is not pretty. Assad's fighters are skilled at exterminating the civilian politician so they will be doing what they do best. They should indicate - by writing on their sleeves or something- where they want their bodies sent.
In Russia, they give you few batons and free of charge nights in the prison cell. Only then you go the real prison. Court is not needed, you're an enemy of the state by default. They already brought elites of Vagner & Chechnya. All got busted.