As expected she is "missing"... Woman who stormed onto Russian TV with anti-war placard 'goes missing' after protest Marina Ovsyannikova, an employee of state-controlled Channel One interrupted newsreader Ekaterina Andreeva last night as she was delivering her evening bulletin https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/woman-who-stormed-onto-russian-26468751
The Russian media staff refuse to push the lies anymore... Russia's state TV hit by stream of resignations https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60763494 Russian state TV reporters know they are lying to viewers and are starting to question their life choices, report says https://www.businessinsider.com/rus...comfortable-lying-about-ukraine-meduza-2022-3
The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html
"The American and British Delusion–Russia May Only Have 14 Days" When I saw this headline today I assumed it was from the Babylon Bee (a terrific satirical blog)–Russia May Only Have 14 Days. Nope. It was Newsmax. Here’s a snippet from that article: “The Russian military may only be able to sustain the fight in Ukraine for another 14 days, the Daily Mailis reporting. The newspaper, attributing the information of U.K. defense sources, said that after two weeks the Russian forces may struggle to hold the ground they captured in Ukraine. The sources maintain the Russian army is on the run. And the sources claim the resistance in Ukraine should be greater than the invading force within 14 days. If you believe this nonsense please send me your name and address. I have a bridge to sell you in Kiev. Here’s the reality–there is a No Fly Zone over Ukraine and it is imposed by Russia. This article is so absurd and out of touch with reality that it must be addressed. I will start by asking two questions: How many times in the last 19 days has a Ukrainian regiment or battalion engaged a comparable Russian unit and forced the Rooskies to retreat? How many times in the last 19 days has Ukrainian artillery or fixed/rotary wing aircraft attacked a Russian military column and destroyed it? Answer to both–NONE. ZERO. ZIPPO. ZILCH. https://sonar21.com/the-american-and-british-delusion-russia-may-only-have-14-days/
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Are they going to stop adopting Russian babies now ? Politics The Russia Meeting at Trump Tower Was to Discuss Adoption.
More absurd, failed, and false Russian propaganda. It's reached the point that the nonsense the Russians put out is a few steps beyond unbelievable. U.S. soldiers alive, despite Russia 'fake news' report, U.S. military says https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us...fake-news-report-us-military-says-2022-03-18/ Three current and former members of the Tennessee National Guard falsely identified in a Russian media report as mercenaries who were killed in Ukraine are in fact alive and well, the Tennessee National Guard said on Thursday. President Joe Biden ordered the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Ukraine prior to Russia's invasion of the country as part of a broader effort to avoid a direct confrontation with the nuclear-armed adversary. But the report published in Russia's Pravda newspaper identified the Americans by name and gave military ranks for each of them, citing information from pro-Russian militia in Ukraine's Donetsk. The report even offered an intricate explanation for how the three were identified, using items from a backpack "near the remains of one of the militants" -- including a Tennessee state flag. "The Tennessee Guard is aware of the fake news coming out of Russia," said Tracy O'Grady, a spokesperson for the larger U.S. National Guard. The Tennessee Guard said in a statement: "They are accounted for, safe and not, as the article headline erroneously states, U.S. mercenaries killed in Donetsk People's Republic." A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said two of the men were still in the Tennessee National Guard and in Tennessee. The other man had left the service was but was alive and accounted for -- and not in Ukraine, the official said. The National Guard speculated the militia picked the three men while reviewing official imagery associated with a 2018 deployment by Tennessee's 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment to Ukraine, suggesting all three had been in Ukraine. "All members of the Tennessee National Guard returned safely to their home state in 2019 after a successful mission," it said. Russia on Sunday attacked the main base where, prior to Biden's pullout, the U.S. military had long trained Ukrainian forces. It fired air-launched cruise missiles from Russian airspace at the Yavoriv International Centre for Peacekeeping and Security. The base is located just 15 miles (25 km) from the Polish border.
Yet another fail in Russian propaganda... Volodymyr Zelenskyy slams ‘childish’ viral deepfake, but experts warn Russia’s cyber hit jobs won’t ‘always be so bad’ https://fortune.com/2022/03/17/volodymyr-zelenskyy-deepfake-video/ Ukraine’s president fought back against a poorly doctored video in which he appears to capitulate to Russia, highlighting the danger posed by artificial intelligence in the spread of misinformation. In the footage, Volodymyr Zelenskyy purportedly called on his soldiers to surrender in a deepfake that earns its name in only the loosest sense of the term. “We are at home and defending Ukraine,” Zelenskyy fired back over Instagram, before turning the tables on his adversaries and advising Russian Federation soldiers they should be the ones to lay down their arms and return home. The brazen and rather sloppy attempt at psychological warfare didn’t fool anyone, certainly not in a country home to a thriving community of tech startups and software coders prior to the war’s outbreak. Roman Osadchuk of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, for example, noted the deepfake was “ridiculed” by Ukrainians for its poor quality of video and audio. Despite the crude hit job, Zelenskyy chose not to take any chance that word might spread, responding quickly to discredit his digital doppelgänger, blasting it as a “childish provocation.” The sophomoric effort to demoralize Ukraine’s forces was promptly torn to shreds online. Yet it may not be the last attempt at fooling the population, and experts argue the next time may be a lot harder to spot. “The deepfake wasn’t convincing, and he could reply fast,” argued John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab focusing on malware, phishing, and disinformation. “But experimentation with fake calls to surrender hasn’t stopped. Don’t assume they will always be so badly executed.” Hackers not necessarily skilled Once alerted, Facebook parent Meta scrubbed its platforms of the video, which features the familiar head of Ukraine’s president planted crudely on a pale, motionless body. “We’ve quickly reviewed and removed this video for violating our policy against misleading manipulated media, and notified our peers at other platforms,” said Nathaniel Gleicher, head of security policy at Meta. Deepfakes use an artificial intelligence technique called a generative adversarial network, or GAN, and can run on open-source software and graphics cards that are readily procurable. The trick, as Fortune has reported, lies in having the right data to feed that software, running the training process for the right length of time, and finally a lot of very painstaking, manual postproduction digital editing. In other words, the skills needed for waging more traditional forms of cyberwarfare—finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in IT infrastructure such as official ministry websites, for example—are not directly transferrable. There may be only a few dozen people in the world with the talent to pull off a truly convincing deepfake. This might explain why hackers could successfully alter the chyron banner on the Ukrainian 24 broadcast news channel to insert a fake caption citing Zelenskyy’s surrender that matched the doctored video. Yet when it came to the actual deepfake, the video failed so obviously at fooling suspicious soldiers already warned by their government not to believe the president would capitulate to Russia. “What this Zelenskyy ‘Deep Fake’ video may end up showing is that people are actually pretty aware of how easy it is to fake videos,” wrote Shane Huntley, director of the Google Threat Analysis Group. “And how quickly they get reported and taken down.”
How the West is breaking through Russia's propaganda wall https://www.yahoo.com/news/west-breaking-russias-propaganda-wall-141846432.html