John Schindler, excerpts:
After Vladimir Putin seized Crimea in early 2014 and began a war of aggression against Ukraine, Russian propaganda efforts aimed at the West went into overdrive.
...To anybody acquainted with well-honed Moscow agitprop techniques, this was no more than old-style KGB Active Measures sped up for the Internet age.
...Kremlin agitprop aimed at the West—properly termed disinformation—contains an amalgam of fact and fiction...
...The counterpropaganda bab...y was strangled in the crib—by the White House.
...Obama’s unwillingness to confront Putin and his regime about anything—Syria, Ukraine, deploying nuclear missiles next to Poland—only encouraged the honey badger in the Kremlin to grow more adventurous and aggressive.
David Homak, excerpts:
Roskomnadzor’s attack on LinkedIn, the least popular Western social network in Russia, was an attempt to prove the agency’s relevance. As generally happens in Russia, the court dutifully upheld all of Roskomnadzor’s claims against LinkedIn and ordered the site blocked.
...However, since the data localization law came into effect, Romkomnadzor has proven itself unable or unwilling to block the more popular Facebook, Twitter, and the online services of Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe. The agency still lacks the teeth to act against them now.
https://themoscowtimes.com/…/how-russia-raised-a-potemkin-f…
UNIAN excerpt:
The statement accused the journalists of conducting "illegal journalistic activity" in areas of Donetsk controlled by the separatists, who have been fighting a bloody war with Ukrainian forces that has killed more than 9,600 since April 2014. Dozhd is known for its critical coverage of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has denied accusations by Kyiv, NATO, and the EU that the Kremlin is backing the separatists despite substantial evidence of such support.
http://www.unian.info/…/1645802-dpr-militants-say-dozhd-jou…
Andrew Higgins, Mike McIntire & Gabriel JX Dance, excerpts;
Some analysts worry that foreign intelligence agencies are meddling in American politics and using fake news to influence elections. But one window into how the meat in fake sausages gets ground can be found in the buccaneering internet economy, where satire produced in Canada can be taken by a recent college graduate in the former Soviet republic of Georgia and presented as real news to attract clicks from credulous readers in the United States.
http://www.nytimes.com/…/fake-news-donald-trump-hillary-cli…
Nataliya Rostova excerpts:
My survey of Russian journalists [sample size 100] showed that 72% of respondents had encountered instances of censorship in their work; 87% agreed that it exists in Russia and 92% that the majority of Russian mass media outlets were biased. Eighty two percent see the post-2012 period as the worst for Russia’s media (and another 11% see Vladimir Putin’s first two terms in the same light), while 73% of respondents saw Boris Yeltsin’s presidency as the most positive for their work. Almost a quarter of respondents believe that there is no one to help them assert their rights.
https://opendemocracy.net/…/in-russia-s-media-censorship-is…
Jim Kovpak excerpts:
Virtually all Russian propaganda for foreign audiences is nothing but rehashed conspiracy theories, largely from the United States.
...There’s also a far more serious issue at stake when we allow charlatans to pin all their woes on Russian propaganda- they are in fact helping Russia’s propaganda war. Recently we’ve seen a perfect example of this with the EU resolution against Russian propaganda.
...If you read RT or Sputnik’s reaction, you’d think they’re... totally pissed about this resolution, but I assure you they are not.
...See the only performance metric RT and Sputnik have is basically “Look! The West is afraid of us! See how angry they are?” They almost literally say exactly that in their own material meant for Russian consumption.
UAWire quotes Jens Stoltenberg, excerpt:
"No, I don’t understand the opinion that NATO’s expansion in central Europe is a provocative stance as is expressed in Russia,"
http://uawire.org/…/stoltenberg-nato-s-expansion-is-not-a-p…
Paul Goble excerpt:
Russian elite is now significantly more anti-American and nationalistic than the Russian population as a whole, the reflection of a paradox: the elites become more nationalistic when tensions with the West go up, while the masses become more nationalistic when such tensions ease, according to two Higher School of Economics experts.
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.ca/…/russian-elite-more-an…
Eric Chenoweth, excerpt:
Russian (and former communist) propaganda has traditionally worked exactly this way: The more you “report” something negatively, the more the negative is true. Trump and supportive media outlets adopted the technique and reveled in information gained from the illegal Russian hacking (as well as many “fake news” stories that evidence suggests were generated by Russian intelligence operations) to make exaggerated claims (“Hillary wants to open borders t...o 600 million people!”) or to accuse Clinton of illegality, corruption and, ironically, treasonous behavior.
...Frighteningly, Putin’s worldview has resonance in the populist and nationalist fixations of Stephen K. Bannon, the president-elect’s senior counselor, whose stated mission is to “destroy” the “establishment” and end the domination of the “donor class.” Bannon’s “closing argument” ad for Trump, redolent of Russian propaganda, described the United States as a corrupt and failing state because of nefarious “global special interests.” It all points to grave danger for democracy and a world order that has kept the peace for 70 years. Is this what America voted for?
John Aravosis excerpt:
Shortly after Stein announced her recount effort, where did she go to announce it? The Russian state propaganda network, RT. (See video below.)
...Did Jill Stein bother telling RT that the very reason many Americans are worried about the results of the election, the reason many of them want a recount, the reason they gave Jill Stein several million dollars for a recount, is because of Russia’s efforts to hack the election, including, but not limited to,... the Wikileaks hacks and the “fake news” that the Russians helped create and disseminate?
Mathew Ingram excerpts:
Making everyone who shares fake news part of a Russian conspiracy is not helpful.
...Accounts run by or associated with Russia Today, Sputnik and other state-controlled entities are a fairly obvious source of this kind of thing. But it’s the attempt to broaden this into a nefarious global scheme that weakens the group’s argument.
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Marco Chacon, excerpts:
Russia’s state-sponsored news agency Sputnik, of course, saw a conspiracy. A hilarious conspiracy...
...Grotesquely comical? I guess I’ll take that coming from Russia.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/…/i-ve-been-making-viral-fake-…
Ukraine Today excerpt:
For the past 3 years, Russia's been actively exploiting the means of a hybrid warfare to gain the lead not only at the front but also in the information field. Fake news, distorted facts, glorification of militant forces are just a few examples of how Russia uses information as a tool to confront Ukraine.
http://uatoday.tv/…/a-public-private-cooperation-as-a-way-t…
Rights in Russia, excerpt:
Through its work as an independent organization conducting and publishing regular surveys of public opinion, the NGO [Levada Centre] has played a key role in promoting and upholding freedom of information in the Russian Federation.
http://www.rightsinrussia.info/…/rights-group-…/levadacentre
Matthew Rozsa, excerpts:
... Trump and Putin have spoken at least twice over the past two weeks, which if true would constitute more contact than Trump is known to have had with any world leader since his election.
...“a senior intelligence official cautioned that it was too early to gauge the significance of Trump’s sparse briefing schedule, given that he is in the middle of his transition process.”
http://www.salon.com/…/donald-trump-has-spoken-to-vladimir…/
- I have just discovered that Nigel Farage current interim leader of U...KIP is appearing on RT (Russia Today) the Kremlin controlled TV station tonight. As Vladimir Putin is such a keen supporter of Brexit, I wonder how much Farage is getting paid for his interview! عرض المزيد
- Only 585 likes? I guess Svoboda fascists don't have any real interna...tional support. Too bad. Your people will starve under the Svob jackboot! عرض المزيد
- Voices of Ukraine - Officialموقع أخبار/وسائط
- Stopfake.org Ukraineوسائل الإعلام/الأخبار/النشر
