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Another example: on one of facebook groups I regularly see posts from a person regularly bashing Russia. Under every post he leaves derogatory comments. Sometim

Another example: on one of facebook groups I regularly see posts from a person regularly bashing Russia. Under every post he leaves derogatory comments. Sometimes he posts derogatory posts although the facebook group is not about Russia at all. Just recently he had shared a meme picture from some of the "opposition" groups (Alexei Navalny or his friends) stating that Russia has the highest suicides rate in the world (of course, because we're poor and doomed and Putin eats our children for breakfast). I didn't believe it and went to several official sources (including international) to verify. Of course, we're very far from the first place in the list of suicide rates. I've commented this on the post and received zero reaction. Moreover, the post was liked and shared further by several members of the group. This is all you need to know about our "opposition". And there're many persons like this disseminating fake news in facebook groups and other communities. I have no evidence, but I strongly believe that they're on a payroll from some non-Russian agency or NGO.

ativzzz 8y ago
> they're on a payroll from some non-Russian agency or NGO. At this point, I would be incredibly surprised if any country in the world wasn't engaged in some sort of online trolling/fake news dissemination on either the global (e.g. Russia vs US vs China) or local (internal politics) scale. It's the best way to spread propaganda while making it seem as real as possible.
- liberte82 8y ago
  And once you propagandize the population successfully enough, they'll carry on without you
  - anticodon 8y ago
    Exactly, as can be easily seen by the score of my comments. I'm 99% sure the downvotes are coming from the supporters of the Russian opposition (fanboys of Alexei Navalny, in particular).
goto11 8y ago
For what it is worth, Wikipedia places Russia as number 3 in suicide rate (when standardized for age) behind Guyana and Lesotho. This is based on WHO numbers. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...) > This is all you need to know about our "opposition". Ok

ativzzz 8y ago

> they're on a payroll from some non-Russian agency or NGO. At this point, I would be incredibly surprised if any country in the world wasn't engaged in some sort of online trolling/fake news dissemination on either the global (e.g. Russia vs US vs China) or local (internal politics) scale. It's the best way to spread propaganda while making it seem as real as possible.

liberte82 8y ago
And once you propagandize the population successfully enough, they'll carry on without you
- anticodon 8y ago
  Exactly, as can be easily seen by the score of my comments. I'm 99% sure the downvotes are coming from the supporters of the Russian opposition (fanboys of Alexei Navalny, in particular).

goto11 8y ago

For what it is worth, Wikipedia places Russia as number 3 in suicide rate (when standardized for age) behind Guyana and Lesotho. This is based on WHO numbers. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...) > This is all you need to know about our "opposition". Ok