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Title might want to be altered: this is a description of a specific research paper analyzing Chinese online propaganda campaigns, not as general an analysis as the title indicates. Interesting stuff!

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RAND has study says the same about Russia.

The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model Why It Might Work and Options to Counter It http://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html

Thanks for the excellent link, I've been looking for a documentary on Putin's propaganda regime that I saw a few years ago, but this paper is a much deeper look which will serve the same purpose.

If you want more context on Putin's regime, check out, "Nothing is True and Everything is Possible" by Peter Pomerantsev. It's an inside view of Russian life/propaganda from someone who worked as a TV producer for a Russian network:

https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-True-Everything-Possible-Surr...

Remember that RAND was one of the big cheerleaders for the Iraq war.

If you want an impartial analysis, you're not going to find it from war-mongering "think tank" imbeciles.

It's a reference to the nonsense 'controversies' created by Donald Trump.

Yes, but the link isn't actually about that.

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