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Despite the EU banning feeds from Russian government organs like RT and Sputnik, those sneaky Russians have adopted alternative propaganda dissemination routes and continue unabated:<\/p>\n
English-language versions of the Russian propaganda videos are now circulating on Twitter and lesser-known platforms popular with American conservatives, including Gab and Truth Social, created by former President Donald Trump, giving Russia a direct conduit to millions of people.<\/a><\/p>\n
In an indication of the Kremlin’s ambitions and the sprawling reach<\/a> of its disinformation operations<\/a>, versions of the videos were also created in Spanish, Italian, German and more than a dozen other languages.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe genius of this approach is that the videos can be downloaded directly from Telegram and it erases the trail that researchers try to follow,” Nisos’ senior intelligence analyst Patricia Bailey told The Associated Press. \u201cThey are creative and adaptable. And they are analyzing their audience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tech companies such as Google’s YouTube and Meta’s Facebook and Instagram also announced they would ban content from the outlets<\/a> within the 27-nation EU, undermining Russia’s ability to spread its propaganda.<\/p>\n
The latest effort revealed by analysts at Nisos involved uploading propaganda videos to Telegram, a loosely moderated platform that is broadly popular in Eastern Europe and used by many conservatives in the United States. In some cases, watermarks identifying the video as RT’s were removed in a further attempt to disguise their source.<\/p>\n
Once on Telegram, the videos were downloaded and reposted on platforms including Twitter without any labels or other indications that the video was produced by Russian state media.\u00a0 Military.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Remember how when the first Hunter Biden stories broke he was labeled as linked to that corrupt fascist horrible Ukraine government? Notice how in the last year the Ukraine government is rehabilitated and all its leaders saints? Just an observation on the power of the media.<\/p>\n
Given that the parent company of TikTok is strongly tied to the Chinese Communist Party, surprisingly they may not have quite as much Russian stuff. Too, with things like Tide pod challenges, they may not need anything worse.<\/p>\n
The Russians are using social media to push their political propaganda. Just like the Democrats use the mass media in the US. Kinda begs the old chicken and the egg question, doesn’t it – are they imitating the Dems in the US? Or were they the originators and just doing what they do? Conspiracy theorists: have at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"