Hardly unique to the Kremlin, and hardly homegrown... disinformation was in play long before there was a Kremlin.
Hardly unique to the Kremlin, and hardly homegrown... disinformation was in play long before there was a Kremlin.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary”
H.L. Mencken
That statement of the obvious has what to do with the subject of the thread?Originally Posted by Dayuhan
"We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again." Gen. Nathanael Greene
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They were never all that good at; much of their stuff was pretty crude. The Americans were marginally better. Of course it was (and is) also fashionable for ideologues of all points on the compass to denounce reportage or opinions they dislike as "disinformation".The Kremlin has practiced a homegrown technique called disinformation for centuries
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary”
H.L. Mencken
Dayuhan:
The definition of disinformation that is used in the book isn't what you were commenting on. You're comment, and my initial response, had more to do with misinformation. The word as it is defined in the book is something that would be done by agents of influence I believe.
But words do get transmogrified in use.
"We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again." Gen. Nathanael Greene
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