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Data research to Russia's misinformation website network

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18 pointsmiohtama34 comments

That even smart people fall so easily for this sort of propaganda (the article itself, as opposed to its colorful just so stories) is a testament to how bad things are in the West.

We would all be better served by identifying propaganda and misinformation being spread by our own governments since it affects our lives much more directly and we might actually be able to do something about it.

Beyond the specific opinion about Russia geopolitics it is important to highlight that intelligence agencies around the world also work on misinformation activities.

Catching Russia on this is just interesting OSINT information.

Whataboutism doesn't change the negative consequences of distortions from those on the receiving end of enemy information operations.

"Whataboutism" is a nonsense term used to lazily wholly dismiss any counter points.

Not only that, but they were just trying to reframe it to be more objective in perspective than singling out a single state actor's actions to fit whatever presented narrative.

It is called cherry picking. People read a news and their/our (limited) focus make the brain to not see the woods from the trees where we need to spend our limited focus to gather more information about the misinformation situation in general.

Again, this is not a Russia endorsement but, for example, it seems that the world is turned off in conflicts such as the war between Israel and Hamas where the focus is extremely narrow.

It's false equivalence. The scale, targeting and intent of what Russia is doing versus some US agency are not comparable.

Wikipedia has some good coverage on the recent misinformation campaigns about Gaza situation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation_in_the_Israel...

Not exactly "catched" Russia.

The research presents a set of websites, which "have similar content, rank for the same search terms (which hint at a pro-Russian narrative), and link and quote each other".

That's all.

It's then assumed that Russia is behind these sites and drives them somehow, directly or as "useful idiots".

The conclusion suggests "Experts and EU states should monitor the activities of such sites, and readers should question such content".

> Not exactly "catched" Russia.

It seems fairly obvious that's the goal of this cleverly written piece, and rarely does anyone notice it is mostly persuasion rather than factual information.

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