All of the Russian state-sponsored misinformation campaigns have probably paid for themselves ten times over with how strongly they’ve succeeded in tipping the scales of geopolitics in Russia’s favor.
Yes sure. But at some point you have to willingly accept that “everyone” out there is lying except your propaganda outlet and disconnect from reality. That is so obviously BS to me that it’s hard to imagine to fall into that trap. Even though I witnessed it first hand with friends and family.
From my understanding of how they operate, it’s less “Everybody is lying except this one source” and more “Everybody in my bubble appears to be saying these things, so it must be true.”
The strategy utilizes armies of bots and bad actors whose purpose is to infiltrate and influence specific demographics on social media into accepting the Russia-supported narrative. The people who buy the narrative will then in turn parrot it to other members of their social circles to legitimize it. So when the western media outlets and elected officials who took Russia’s money repeat these same ideas, they are more easily accepted as true.
Propaganda is a hell of a drug.
All of the Russian state-sponsored misinformation campaigns have probably paid for themselves ten times over with how strongly they’ve succeeded in tipping the scales of geopolitics in Russia’s favor.
Yes sure. But at some point you have to willingly accept that “everyone” out there is lying except your propaganda outlet and disconnect from reality. That is so obviously BS to me that it’s hard to imagine to fall into that trap. Even though I witnessed it first hand with friends and family.
From my understanding of how they operate, it’s less “Everybody is lying except this one source” and more “Everybody in my bubble appears to be saying these things, so it must be true.”
The strategy utilizes armies of bots and bad actors whose purpose is to infiltrate and influence specific demographics on social media into accepting the Russia-supported narrative. The people who buy the narrative will then in turn parrot it to other members of their social circles to legitimize it. So when the western media outlets and elected officials who took Russia’s money repeat these same ideas, they are more easily accepted as true.