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Russia discovered already 20 years ago that it's much more efficient to spend money on affecting the discussion online than it is when spent on missiles and tanks.
Russia conducts over 60% of all disinformation operations online. In the whole world. More than everybody else put together.
The West still hasn't caught up.
Instead we have enabled the tech companies to profit from selling advertisements between shows that parrot their propaganda.
@gimulnautti Russia and other Axis members also run disinformation sources with websites and think tanks. Those play a crucial role of supplying and legitimizing the bot networks' talking points.
It would be a useful investigative journalism to identify the flow of money to them. Some are well known: The Grayzone, former Intercept journalists such as Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Grim, think talks such as Strategic Culture Foundation.
But there are many, and we don't know enough about them.
@pait An information war could have been fought, and won.
But the USA especially has been crippled by special interest groups asserting a libertarian form of anything-goes ”freedom”.
Hence any attempts at establishing unified counterbalances to Russian-style propaganda have been met as ”censorship”.
Russia doesn’t actually need you to believe anything. It only needs you to believe nothing. To block attempts at succesfull collective action, your confusion is enough.