The stories were repeated on a daily basis and reproduced in multiple languages.
I'm as worried about this as you are!
Posted on 01/24/2017 12:08:42 PM PST by Navy Patriot
Russia is seeking to influence the outcome of several key elections in European countries this year with fake news, a special task force set up by the European Union has warned.
The EU is reportedly allocating more funds to its East StratCom task force to counter the disinformation, amid fears Russia will target elections in France, Germany and the Netherlands
“There is an enormous, far-reaching, at least partly organized, disinformation campaign against the EU, its politicians and its principles,” a source close to the task force told Germany’s Spiegel magazine.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The unit’s experts found more than 2,500 examples of “stories directly contradicting public facts” in 18 different languages over just 15 months.The stories were repeated on a daily basis and reproduced in multiple languages.
Fake news stories uncovered by the task force range from conspiracy theories over who shot down Flight MH17 over Ukraine to claims the EU is planning to ban snowmen as “racist”.
They also include a fake terror video threatening attacks in the Netherlands if the country supported an EU association agreement with Ukraine.
“Russia is seeking to influence the outcome of several key elections in European countries this year with fake news”
I assume this actually means that the truth is somehow leaking out around the barriers of European government media control.
This is strikingly similar to what the Soviets would tell their citizens the West was doing to their society. I think it was true then, and to a certain extent it is true now. It is called politics on the world stage. The US has been quite heavy handed for 100 years at this.
The pro-EU press in those countries is almost as fake as CNN & the WaPo. Russia’s couldn’t outdo those arseholes in fake news no matter how much $$ Putin dumps into it.
Obviously they know the right will be winning, so they are blaming it on the Russkies.
As opposed to our fake news like always showing children amongst the refugees instead of all of the fighting-age men who are the vast majority of “refugees.”
Amazing. According to the statist, leftist MSM, Putin alone is doing more to disrupt the USA and Europe than the Soviet Union could achieve in 70 years!
The EU is quite literally a re-imagining of the USSR. Full socialism, increasing limits on personal expression, the loss of free speech, a confederation of disparate nationalities, a highly centralized government that has a wealthy nomenclatura, and last, an aggressive expansive foreign policy. The EU is the USSR without Russian cultural points included.
If the Russians influence them it would probably be a small move towards sanity and good citizenship in the world.
In other words, the EU is striving to become like Russia.
So in other words, the anti immigration politicians are going up in the polls.
Are they going to name this anti-fake news effort the “Ministry of Truth”?
Who has the pic of the two dogs saying;
“We’re glad you’re home! The Russians pooped in the hall.”
The stories were repeated on a daily basis and reproduced in multiple languages.
I'm as worried about this as you are!
Excellent point!
Funny thing, we've only heard concern over Russian hacking in connection with elections that threaten the globalists.
What a coincidence!
The Hillary Clinton Excuse.
Exactly, the KGB taught them everything they know. That’s why the Berlin Wall coming down and the break up of the USSR didn’t matter. The seeds had long been sown in the West.
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