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The Russian “Firehose of Falsehood” Propaganda [pdf]
- alexro 10y agoSo CNN and other american and european media giants found a good excuse to counter The Russian “Firehose of Falsehood” Propaganda with fake news all over the Web?
- stcredzero 10y agoTo paraphrase the green box from the post: Distinctive Features of Contemporary Propaganda 1. High-volume and multichannel 2. Rapid, continuous, and repetitive 3. Lacks commitment to objective reality 4. Lacks commitment to consistency This just strikes me as modern. It's not only Russia that does this. There are online movements that use the exact same technique.
- rakoo 10y agoThis doesn't strike me as modern. I don't see what is in there that doesn't already exist in partisan news broadcasts.
- stcredzero 10y agoIt builds on earlier propaganda techniques, of course, in much the same way that web design builds on typography. What makes it modern, is the "social" element and the even more multifarious "multichannel."
- chroem- 10y agoI think I might take what the RAND Corporation puts out with a grain of salt, given their ties to the military industrial complex.