unless she's taking money from a foreign country and is not registered as a lobbyists when doing so, there's nothing illegal about spreading falsehoods.
This should be a reminder to everyone that forwarding or publicly promoting leaked U.S. classified material is also a crime. Keep in mind the stolen documents she promoted had obvious security markings. The FBI will soon be hauling her away for questioning.
The fake messages have not helped Russia much in Europe... Russia distributed 5,000 false messages in a year in 5 European countries alone – VoxCheck https://news.yahoo.com/russia-distributed-5-000-false-143514513.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall During the year, starting from 24 February 2022, Russia has distributed over 5,000 news pieces containing false messages in the media outlets of Germany, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. Source: Svitlana Slipchenko, Head of the VoxCheck fact-checking project, during the presentation in Media Center Ukraine – Ukrinform Quote: "During the year of observation, from 24 February 2022 to 24 February 2023, the VoxCheck team of independent fact-checkers recorded more than about 5,000 cases of the distribution of information with a false message, which Russia spread in the media of Germany, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary." Details: According to Slipchenko, after the analysis, it was possible to identify 27 key narratives about Ukraine, which the Russian Federation spreads in the European media.
What a twisted fantasy world these clowns live in... Inside Russia’s alternate reality as TV news anchors claim ‘satanic Ukrainian Nazis’ are shelling civilians There’s little light relief on Russian TV as the Kremlin whips up support for its invasion – but the uncomfortable truth is many viewers are being told exactly what they want to hear https://inews.co.uk/news/world/russ...ews-anchors-ukrainian-nazis-civilians-2301698
Failure after failure. LOL Right-wing organizers built a giant statue of a Russian propagandist in Minecraft for a digital rally that saw over 10,000 people show up — and then the server crashed https://news.yahoo.com/wing-organizers-built-giant-statue-161923320.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Russian TV is not a well-oiled brainwashing machine. It's a terror box that failed https://www.euronews.com/2023/05/08...nwashing-machine-its-a-terror-box-that-failed Although Russian TV does help shape the official discourse of the rogue state gone terrorist, it is unclear whether it has any success with the audience in convincing it to believe the lies it peddles, Aleksandar Đokić writes. When it comes to main mechanisms of disseminating government propaganda, the Soviet strongman Joseph Stalin notoriously had the radio. In turn, Russia's President Vladimir Putin has heavily counted on the TV to brainwash his citizens. There are, however, significant differences between the efficacy of these two methods. First off, radio was quite novel in Stalin's times, while television is an old medium in Putin's era. In other words, Soviet radio propaganda — from which Nazi Germany's Josepbh Goebbels also learned his trade — was cutting edge, state of the art. It was fresh and it presented an unsurpassed way of communicating the totalitarian will of the state to the mostly illiterate and petrified Soviet masses. Putin’s propaganda tools are aged, passé, and they’re losing the attention of the audience. By focusing too much on TV, Putin failed to take full control of the internet During the first half a year of the invasion, from winter 2022 to summer of the same year, Russia’s big three state TV channels — Channel One, Rossiya 1 and NTV — lost about a quarter of their audiences. The most active parts of Russian society have moved to the social media platform and messenger Telegram to get their news. Telegram has basically no censorship whatsoever, and it’s not banned in Russia, at least for now. Its creator, Pavel Durov, is in essence a libertarian, like many internet moguls are these days. "The platform’s content is ... almost completely unmoderated: Ukrainian media is present together with Russian extremist mil-bloggers as well as the Russian state-owned media like TASS." He had a standoff with the Russian government a few years back, which ended with what one may call a compromise, allowing Durov to keep all his data servers inside the country and freely manage his platform. This means that the Russian state can effectively monitor all the data and that the Telegram administration will comply with any searches. The platform’s content is, on the other hand, almost completely unmoderated: Ukrainian media is present, together with Russian extremist mil-bloggers, as well as the Russian state-owned media like TASS. Many Russian officials also have their own Telegram channels, too. Unlike Stalin's Soviets, Putin's Russians have an alternative But Putin’s propaganda machine has lost the most important propaganda battle to lose — the battle of the Internet. Losing this struggle means that Russian citizens can obtain uncensored data with ease, even if they can be theoretically monitored. Defeat in this field also means that Russian state propaganda hasn’t been able to create powerful and popular Internet outlets of their own for its own citizens. Traditional media outlets like RT are far more popular in alt-right and alt-left circles in the West than they are in Russia itself. This is the second major difference to Stalin’s model of propaganda — the Soviet masses in the 1930s had no alternative to state propaganda nor the means to gain access to it. And the reason why complete media isolation is impossible today is quite obvious. As the Kremlin went out of its way to ban social networks like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (LinkedIn was banned even before the invasion), it did not ban YouTube or Telegram because that would shut down its own propaganda as well. Demonising the West made it more appealing Putin’s Russia tried for years and failed to create its own alternative social networks, basically its own segment of the Internet, which the state bureaucracy could later simply disconnect from the global network, copying China’s example of the walled Internet. Why? Because Russians, whatever their political stance or affiliation, act as if they are a part of the European civilisation — that is to say, they want to belong to the West. "If Russia creates its own line of jeans, ordinary Russians would still crave the popular Western brands, the same goes for any social network." Even in periods of history when the Russian society was made to hate the West, at the same time, the West was the only constant upon which comparisons were made. Inadvertently, demonising it made it into a standard to both compete against and aspire to. If Russia creates its own line of jeans, ordinary Russians would still crave the popular Western brands, the same goes for any social network. Russians do not want to isolate themselves in “Fortress Russia”. Instead, they want the window to Europe to stay open. Lack of freedom to create means domestic products are a failure The state was powerless to create its own copy of the West and its material wealth, including popular culture and entertainment. The failure can be attributed to the wrong model of thinking or paradigm. The allure of the West comes from the freedom of the individual, which is free to create new content. Free competition and many trials and errors usually result in a competitive, high-quality product down the line. But the Russian way tends to be more authoritarian and centralised, where orders are given from the top: “I want it to look like a Western product, only better and with a certain Russian touch it”. "The lack of liberty will inevitably make any Russian state product aimed at attracting the masses a failure." After many repeated attempts of carbon copying marred by corruption, an inferior product to the Western alternative is created. The lack of liberty will inevitably make any Russian state product aimed at attracting the masses a failure. This goes for the media, films, music, video games, clothes, fast food, automobiles and user technology alike. The failure of the Russian state is the best show Putin's propaganda machine ever made Many Russia watchers from the West are now fixated on the few state-media talk shows in which all sorts of aggressive — and let’s be honest, outrageous — messaging can be heard. They then assume that the population fully absorbs this messaging in the way it has been presented. While it must be said that these messages do help shape the official discourse of the state — a state which has gone rogue and its essentially terrorist discourse reflects this reality — it is unclear whether it has any success with the audience in convincing it to believe the lies it peddles. "The only show for ordinary Russians to observe playing out is watching the state gradually collapse because of the war of choice it started." What is obvious, however, is that instead of becoming mindless drones easily made to do what the Kremlin wants, the Russian masses have been turned stuporously apathetic and paralysed instead. There is no war fervour: the state is left on its own to win or to fail. Thus, the only show for ordinary Russians to observe playing out is watching the state gradually collapse because of the war of choice it started, while fledgling democracy was stifled decades ago.
Putin's 'clunky' propaganda campaign turning Kremlin into laughing stock as defeat looms EXCLUSIVE: Russia's propaganda is similar to that churned out during the Cold War - a decisive factor in Soviet Russia's loss to the West, it has been claimed. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1774204/putin-downfall-kremlin-propaganda-ukraine-war-spt