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If you haven't figured it out -- rational people has been mocking Russia for many months. This is not just 'starting'. Russian TV presenter and prominent Putin propagandist laments that 'the West is starting to mock us' over Ukraine war https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-propagandist-west-mock-us-ukraine-2022-10
A depressed Kremlin News Network calls in convicted American pedophile Scott Ritter to provide a pep talk.
The Latest... Russian TV protester listed as wanted after escaping house arrest https://news.yahoo.com/russian-tv-protester-listed-wanted-133855228.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall Russian TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, famous for staging an on-air protest against Russia's war in Ukraine, has been put on Moscow's wanted list after allegedly escaping from pre-trial house arrest. Ovsyannikova, 44, was given two months' house arrest in August, and faces up to 10 years in prison if found guilty of spreading fake news about Russia's armed forces. The case relates to a protest in July when she stood on a river embankment opposite the Kremlin and held up a poster calling President Vladimir Putin a murderer and his soldiers fascists. However, the state-run news outlet Russia Today reported on Saturday that she had left, and her whereabouts were unknown. "Last night, my ex-wife left the place that the court assigned her for house arrest and, together with my 11-year-old daughter, fled in an unknown direction," it quoted her ex-husband as saying. On Monday, her name could be seen on the interior ministry's online list of fugitives from justice, accompanied by a photo. Russia passed a law against discrediting the armed forces on March 4, eight days after invading Ukraine. Ovsyannikova, who was born in Ukraine, came to international prominence in March by walking out in front of studio cameras during an evening news broadcast on the flagship Channel One with a placard that read "Stop the war" and "They're lying to you". She has already been fined for two previous protests against the war. Russia says that what it calls a "special military operation" was necessary to prevent Ukraine becoming a platform for Western aggression, and to defend Russian-speakers. Kyiv and its Western allies dismiss these arguments as baseless pretexts for an imperial-style war of acquisition.
Vladimir Putin's goddaughter faces jail for 'spreading lies about Russian government' Journalist and former presidential election candidate Ksenia Sobchak is accused of “spreading falsehoods about government agencies”, which could land her in jail for up to three years https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/putins-opposition-goddaughter-faces-jail-28138926
They keep trying.... but the operate word is FAIL P.S. -- Let them know we are on to their Tucker Carson outlet. Experts: Russia finding new ways to spread propaganda videos https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-technology-misinformation-0da59f7a72705c5f3fcdb59af1fc7af0 Russia has devised yet another way to spread disinformation about its invasion of Ukraine, using digital tricks that allow its war propaganda videos to evade restrictions imposed by governments and tech companies. Accounts linked to Russian state-controlled media have used the new method to spread dozens of videos in 18 different languages, all without leaving telltale signs that would give away the source, researchers at Nisos, a U.S.-based intelligence firm that tracks disinformation and other cyber threats, said in a report released Wednesday. The videos push Kremlin conspiracy theories blaming Ukraine for civilian casualties as well as claims that residents of areas forcibly annexed by Russia have welcomed their occupiers. English-language versions of the Russian propaganda videos are now circulating on Twitter and lesser-known platforms popular with American conservatives, including Gab and Truth Social, created by former President Donald Trump, giving Russia a direct conduit to millions of people. In an indication of the Kremlin’s ambitions and the sprawling reach of its disinformation operations, versions of the videos were also created in Spanish, Italian, German and more than a dozen other languages. “The genius of this approach is that the videos can be downloaded directly from Telegram and it erases the trail that researchers try to follow,” Nisos’ senior intelligence analyst Patricia Bailey told The Associated Press. “They are creative and adaptable. And they are analyzing their audience.” The European Union moved to ban RT and Sputnik, two of Russia’s leading state-run media outlets, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February. Tech companies such as Google’s YouTube and Meta’s Facebook and Instagram also announced they would ban content from the outlets within the 27-nation EU, undermining Russia’s ability to spread its propaganda. Russian attempts to get around the new rules began almost immediately. New websites were created to host videos that make debunked claims about the war. Russian diplomats took on some of the work. The latest effort revealed by analysts at Nisos involved uploading propaganda videos to Telegram, a loosely moderated platform that is broadly popular in Eastern Europe and used by many conservatives in the United States. In some cases, watermarks identifying the video as RT’s were removed in a further attempt to disguise their source. Once on Telegram, the videos were downloaded and reposted on platforms including Twitter without indications that the video was produced by Russian state media. Hundreds of accounts that later posted or reposted the videos were linked by Nisos researchers to the Russian military, embassies or state media. Some of the accounts appeared to use fake profile photos or posted content in strange ways that suggested they were inauthentic. One example: a Twitter account supposedly run by a woman living in Japan that had a singular interest in Russian propaganda. Instead of posting about a variety of topics such as entertainment, food, travel or family, the account user only posted Russian propaganda videos — and not just in Japanese, but also in Farsi, Polish, Spanish and Russian. The account also cited or reposted content from Russian embassies hundreds of times, researchers found, showing again the close relationship between Russian diplomats and the country’s propaganda work. When it comes to Russia’s overall disinformation capabilities, Bailey said, the network is “just one piece of a puzzle that is quite large.” Last week, Russia sought to spread a baseless conspiracy theory blaming the U.S. for sabotage to the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea. The same week, Meta announced the discovery of a sprawling Russian disinformation network that created websites designed to look like major European news outlets. Instead of news, the websites carried propaganda intended to drive a wedge between Ukraine and its western allies. That operation was the largest of its kind to originate in Russia since the war began, researchers concluded. “The network exhibited an overarching pattern of targeting Europe with anti-Ukraine narratives and expressions of support for Russian interests,” according to a report from the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, which helped identify the network disabled by Meta.
The state propaganda and lies is not working anymore... Kremlin allows Russian state TV to report on military setbacks in Ukraine as Putin searches for a scapegoat: 'We have to stop lying' https://www.businessinsider.com/kre...tate-tv-to-report-setbacks-in-ukraine-2022-10
Someone should really teach the FSB to not fudge their evidence based on photos they found on the internet.
So in summary... Need to invent a truck bomber? Find a pic of a guy who looks like Balzac on meth, merge that with a sample passport card from Wikipedia, dirty it up a bit, don't bother to change the document number from all zeros.