The country’s Psychological Defence Agency chief told POLITICO that platforms like X, TikTok and Facebook need to do more to combat Russia’s lie machine.
In the US, that’s what the 2 major parties are for. Each blames foreign influence for the extremes of the opposition (within or out of the actual party). Articles just parroting some in-power government agency’s assertion are clearly just carrying water for the power structure they thrive in and support. No questioning, no demanding those claims be backed up by any evidence. By the time actual journalists dig into whatever was used to support the claim (if it exists at all), it ends up being the most benign nonsense that could hardly be called a coordinated campaign by external actors. By then, enough people just see the headlines and believe it on the surface because it aligns with the us vs them narrative. It serves the powerful in my country to claim there’s some external enemy rather than give the masses any room to realize that power structure serves big business interests and the disagreements are largely for show.
You and belluck have a point, they want to keep people with similar interests divided rather than work on solutions. It’s just far more likely that coordinated divide and conquer campaign is coming from inside the country than outside.
Saying foreign powers are running disinformation campaigns does not mean that there is no other cause for discontent. The threat here is that Russia (as well as others not mentioned here because Politico is owned by Axel Springer) is turning people towards explicitly anti-democratic, authoritarian parties (in Germany, it’s BSW for the „far left“ (according to noone but themselves) and AFD for the far right. If you spend any amount of time looking into both parties, it becomes very obvious that they are puppets for rich authoritarian elites, including the Russian government.)
Right… The only reason citizens in any country are upset is because of influence by an external entity.
Sure. Can’t be any other explanation. No valid concerns. Got it.
The power structure works to protect the power structure. No way this warning is the disinformation?
It’s not to make people upset, it’s to make already upset people avoid working together on creating solutions.
In the US, that’s what the 2 major parties are for. Each blames foreign influence for the extremes of the opposition (within or out of the actual party). Articles just parroting some in-power government agency’s assertion are clearly just carrying water for the power structure they thrive in and support. No questioning, no demanding those claims be backed up by any evidence. By the time actual journalists dig into whatever was used to support the claim (if it exists at all), it ends up being the most benign nonsense that could hardly be called a coordinated campaign by external actors. By then, enough people just see the headlines and believe it on the surface because it aligns with the us vs them narrative. It serves the powerful in my country to claim there’s some external enemy rather than give the masses any room to realize that power structure serves big business interests and the disagreements are largely for show.
You and belluck have a point, they want to keep people with similar interests divided rather than work on solutions. It’s just far more likely that coordinated divide and conquer campaign is coming from inside the country than outside.
Saying foreign powers are running disinformation campaigns does not mean that there is no other cause for discontent. The threat here is that Russia (as well as others not mentioned here because Politico is owned by Axel Springer) is turning people towards explicitly anti-democratic, authoritarian parties (in Germany, it’s BSW for the „far left“ (according to noone but themselves) and AFD for the far right. If you spend any amount of time looking into both parties, it becomes very obvious that they are puppets for rich authoritarian elites, including the Russian government.)