AND information warfare marches on.....whether in the US or driven by Russia itself....
“Fake News Is Not the Only Problem” by @gilgul
https://points.datasociety.net/fake-...cb#.48aafeppl#
This article is well worth reading and then rereading one more time as it is the basis for the new "Post Truth era" we are currently in where truth no longer matters....that is just how successful propaganda and disinformation has become....in Europe as well as in the US.....
It actually has become quite difficult to counter Russian info warfare simply by using "the truth" backed up by facts...as we have seen especially lately in the US....facts no longer matter...it is the person with the loudest voice throwing the challenge I am going to lie...SO disprove I am lying that has taken hold in the US and especially even more so in Europe....
We saw this yesterday and today with a series of Trump twitter rants....blatantly all lies but his challenge to MSM was "prove me wrong'.....very typical from virtually all statements coming lately from the Russian FM on say eastern Ukraine or Syria or on the US elections.....or even from Putin himself.....
With Russian statements it is now common to treat them as a lie ONLY when they deny something..THEN what they deny as a lie is in fact "the truth"....
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