Counter-disinformation group says social media channels connected to Pravda network helped amplify message
Accounts with links to the Russian military promoting far-right messages reached more than 500,000 people in the early days of the Ceuta migration crisis, according to an analysis done by 411, a counter-disinformation group.
Russia-linked social media accounts frequently spread destabilising narratives in Europe, often promoting far-right talking points about immigration.
But 411 and other experts suggest the scale and coordination of the disinformation that followed the Ceuta crisis is significant. Groups spreading disinformation are more organised and powerful than they were several years ago.
21 Comments
Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 34d
Russia? A far-right nexus?
Shocking. Truly shocking.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 23 pts · 34d
Remember how they threw waves of migrants at the Eastern borders of the EU (Poland, Baltics) some years ago, then gleefully mocked admins for having a hard time dealing with it? Destabilization is the point. Erode trust in institutions and even human decency.
dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 33d
I wonder which platforms are enabling this. Surely security systems must flag this. Unless they even promote it, say algorithmically. Seems like the enablers or supporters should be liable if the platform is proprietary.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 33d
Mostly Telegram...
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 33d
Shocking that Putler of Russian and Beelzebibi of AIPAC would adopt the same strategy to deal with their war aggression.
jimmy90@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 32d
i was just going to comment to wait for the leftist loons to link this to the jews
back of the net well played
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 31d
And I was waiting for someone to conflate the policies of Likud and its coalition partners with all Jews. But it's too lazy and boringly predictable a response to say well-played.
Addition@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 33d
I had not heard of this before. Here's the wiki page for anyone else interested in learning about this event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Morocco%E2%80%93Spain_border_incident
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 33d
Gee I wonder which other entity is linked to migration hate propaganda influencers. Guess we will never find out
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 31d
Perhaps it's time to revive the term "running dog curs" for Putin's fascist stooges?
geezett@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 34d
Sure, Russia.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 31d
Sure, such a benign government, who could possibly have expected such hostile behavoir?
Tolc@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 33d
consequence of collapse of soviet union which liberals wanted.
breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 33d
Well shit, that was 35 years ago. Will Russia ever be responsible for their own behaviour?
Tolc@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 33d
capitalism is responsible for that behavior, also everything right wing isnt influenced by russia, its a huge part of what the west, america wanted, every capitalist country has significant amount of fascists and russia is no different.
BlindPenguin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 33d
Tolc@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 33d
must not gigaquote
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 32d
Nothing in that comment is true:
Tolc@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 31d
the SU wanted workers control in west but the west wanted bourgeosie control in the east, thats why many of them now have american bases.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 31d
Once again. You might want to read some wikipedia articles regarding the things you are talking about.
Tolc@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 30d
wikipedia is liberal, conservative propaganda mostly