Let's see the latest crap from Scott Ritter where he cheers on the deliberate Russian murder of civilians.
Another day, another propaganda fail by Russia. Their efforts are laughable. Russia's Foreign Ministry's Trolling Attempt Backfires – Badly An attempted diss of Rishi Sunak and Volodymyr Zelenskyy went awry. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...lodymyr-zelenskyy_uk_65a69a23e4b003e9d4c3b140
France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe “Portal Kombat” also targets Germany and Poland https://www.economist.com/europe/20...ast-russian-disinformation-campaign-in-europe RUSSIA HAS been at the forefront of internet disinformation techniques at least since 2014, when it pioneered the use of bot farms to spread fake news about its invasion of Crimea. According to French authorities, the Kremlin is at it again. On February 12th Viginum, the French foreign-disinformation watchdog, announced it had detected preparations for a large disinformation campaign in France, Germany, Poland and other European countries, tied in part to the second anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the elections to the European Parliament in June. Viginum said it had uncovered a Russian network of 193 websites which it codenames “Portal Kombat”. Most of these sites, such as topnews.uz.ua, were created years ago and many were left dormant. Over 50 of them, such as news-odessa.ru and pravda-en.com, have been created since 2022. Current traffic to these sites, which exist in various languages including French, German, Polish and English, is low. But French authorities think they are ready to be activated aggressively as part of what one official calls a “massive” wave of Russian disinformation. (More at above url)
Watch Poland Debunk Putin’s Propaganda With This Powerful UN Speech These four minutes from Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski are worth your time. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/02/poland-putin-propaganda-un-speech-radoslaw-sikorski/ (Article has video)
166 million disinformation posts about Ukraine are distributed by Russian propaganda every week But they still are not winning the war -- while most educated people mock the Russia's absurd claims. Senior Ukrainian official says Russia spreads 166 million disinformation posts about Ukraine every week https://news.yahoo.com/senior-ukrainian-official-says-russia-114423540.html Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, has said Russia has significantly stepped up its disinformation campaigns to sow discord and influence public opinion, with special units assigned to each country where elections are taking place in Europe. Source: Danilov in an interview with The Times Details: Danilov said that Russian agents spread 166 million disinformation posts about Ukraine on platforms such as Telegram, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter every week. Of these, for example, 36 million posts made last week were aimed at discrediting Ukrainian officials; 23.5 million at ending political and military unity; 51 million at demoralising the defenders; and 55 million at demoralising the public. Danilov said that Russia had developed an artificial intelligence tool that it is using to interfere in the UK and US elections on a significantly larger scale than ever before. Previously, Moscow relied on numerous hackers to spread disinformation from a "troll factory" in St. Petersburg on social media platforms such as Telegram, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Now, "two or three" agents can create "tens of thousands" of fake accounts, Danilov said, adding: "Artificial intelligence is a huge step forward for Russia."
More failing Russian propaganda trying to pretend to be local papers. Fake U.S. local news network exposed as Russia-linked propaganda front: https://www.rawstory.com/fake-news-russia/ Researchers have uncovered a new network of fake news websites that have popped up ahead of the 2024 presidential election that they have traced to Russia. The New York Times reported that the websites have been designed to look like local news sites for major American cities that deliver a mix of real local news combined with propaganda that's seemingly beneficial to the Kremlin. For example, a Russian website called the "Miami Chronicle" fashions itself as a newspaper that has purportedly been reporting on South Florida since 1937. In reality, it takes actual Florida news stories and then slips in fake ones aimed at undermining the United States' foreign policy and bolstering Russia's foreign policy aims. "Amid some true reports, the site published a story last week about a 'leaked audio recording' of Victoria Nuland, the U.S. under secretary of state for political affairs, discussing a shift in American support for Russia’s beleaguered opposition after the death of the Russian dissident Aleksei A. Navalny," reports the Times. "The recording is a crude fake, according to administration officials who would speak only anonymously to discuss intelligence matters." The network was discovered by Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub by researchers Patrick Warren and Darren Linvill, who tell the Times that its websites are designed to lend journalistic credibility to slickly produced propaganda. "The page is just there to look realistic enough to fool a casual reader into thinking they’re reading a genuine, U.S.-branded article," Linvill told the Times. Russia in 2016 used fake news stories to attack the candidacy of Democrat Hillary Clinton and promote the candidacy of former President Donald Trump. However, in that year, the effort was massively helped by American social media companies, which did little to throttle content produced by Russian intelligence services from going viral on their platforms, and it's unclear if the current Russian sites have a strategy to spread their propaganda further than their own internet domains.