Russian propaganda fishes among pandemic deniers

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this campaign disinformation besieging Russian maneuvers in the war in Ukraine and the intelligence services Detected more than 40,000 messagesIt has the most receptive audience among deniers in Spain. Police disinformation experts find a heavy grazing of Russian propaganda across the same broad industry, during Pandemic, He opposed lockdowns, then masks on public roads, and then vaccinations.

Russian-inspired frightening, destabilizing or disastrous messages are infused into Telegram channels. great conversations born out of the pandemicpresenting themselves as “resistance” in general and far right messages.

“They weren’t going to waste the social mass they catalyzed during the pandemic,” a police source explains. Since February he changing the content of their conversation Towards the pro-Russian theme.

Ukraine already a colony United States of America” continued in the Vk messaging this Wednesday TV channel RT. Disinformation campaigns consistently refer to the US rather than the EU. One of the most repeated phrases in the Russian narrative is as follows: used nuclear weapons against people It is the United States of America”. Now, the slogan often appears with or simultaneously with others that are not so incontrovertible: Russia never started a war or “Russia did not attack any country.”

In general, disinformation “attempts to present any government decision that supports Ukraine or NATO as alien to the will of the people and driven by financial interests or occult forces -explains an intelligence officer from the Armed Forces- and by comparing, for example, the inflation we suffer with the expenditure on military aid to Ukraine, it creates a general basis of suspicion against institutions”.

Arguments abound in this “thin rain” make up a general story that the democratic system is not real, but a cover for hidden forces that limit freedom and leave people unprotected. Europeans don’t want die of hunger and cold because of the puppet Zelensky and the totalitarian impositions of the globalist EU” were read on one of these channels this Wednesday, below a video showing the demonstrations of strikers in France.

nuclear fear

The source in question explains that the messages are aimed at “strengthening the confirmation bias” of their readers. In other words, highlight distrust among those who are already insecure or frighten the already frightened even more.

And in the context of the Ukrainian conflict, the real fear is a future nuclear war. Public attention on this issue is already a breeding ground for misrepresentation. The Department of Homeland Security, Moncloa’s advisory body, is investigating the recent publication of confusing news as a disinformation division and the gradual deterioration of social networks. A collection of megaphones allegedly by the government to warn of an atomic attack, For example. In reality, it has nothing to do with the war, as this newspaper explains: it is about replacing the alarm loudspeakers of nuclear power plants, as envisaged in its usual technical plan.

Russian disinformation is not just aimed at persuading or destabilizing Spanish society. There is also a “domestic disinformation line”, these sources confirm, that is, from Russia to Russians, Uniting Putin’s supporters and weakening rivals”.

Accordingly, an atmosphere of threat is created among the Russians residing in Spain. Platforms in Alicante and Madrid “announced the creation of a lawyer service to the Russian colony, for example. report Russophobic attacks on children Slavs. There are none, but it seems to be generated when building this service,” explains one of the sources consulted.

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