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Finnish children learn media literacy at 3 years old. It’s protection against Russian propaganda (apnews.com)
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[–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

I feel like propaganda is the wrong word for what Russia is doing online.

Digital warfare is more about dividing your enemies and making them fight each other and waste resources, like they have successfully done with Americans.

It's less about spreading your own agenda, and more about splitting others.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    It's not even division, I once heard it described as "planned destruction of concensus reality". It's what the idiots panicking over "Russian bots" and "Putin's playbook" fundamentally fail to grasp: getting people who hate Russia to go on a never ending hunt for Russian bots is much easier than getting them to like Russia, but equally makes them counterproductive to local politics.

    Like that story from a few weeks ago, an AIPAC media campaign against an anti-Israel politician is less effective than AIPAC donating to him and then leaking it. Or, ideally, both.

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