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It was fascinating to see just how quickly some of the Russian propaganda has been debunked.. a group of technically savvy Twitter users just dismembering claim

It was fascinating to see just how quickly some of the Russian propaganda has been debunked.. a group of technically savvy Twitter users just dismembering claim after claim as obvious false flag nonsense. My favorite so far; Russian media reports Ukrainian 'saboteurs' were targeting chlorine storage near Donestk and air a video of the alleged attack. They release the raw video and it's immediately shown that the video was created several days earlier based on metadata (https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1494994802705850368 https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1494994802705850368) After which, people go further and tease apart the video where they discover the name of a youtube video with audio of very similar sounding explosions -- so they do spectral analysis and prove that it's the same audio overlaid on the stupid propaganda video: https://twitter.com/AugustGraham/status/1495069297911156740 https://twitter.com/AugustGraham/status/1495069297911156740 I'm surprised at how clumsy the propaganda has been so far. E.g. this farcical video of Russian journalists being "shelled" by Ukrainians: https://twitter.com/jakluge/status/1496521293126066181 https://twitter.com/jakluge/status/1496521293126066181 edit It's hard to gin up a war these days -- pics of a Ukrainian SU-24 being towed toward the front lines, presumably to be claimed as shot down while attempting to attack Russian or Belarusian troops; https://twitter.com/nevedimka123/status/1496523365112238080 https://twitter.com/nevedimka123/status/1496523365112238080

cafard 5y ago
It probably depends on your audience.
dzhiurgis 5y ago
Irony is that it only needs to look legitimate-ish to select few officials. Most of Russians don't believe it (though too scared to say), most of officials don't believe, but obliged to. No one abroad believes it since it's a stupid thing Russia was doing forever. Diplomats, well they have to remain diplomatic and respond to everything as if it was true.

cafard 5y ago

It probably depends on your audience.

dzhiurgis 5y ago

Irony is that it only needs to look legitimate-ish to select few officials. Most of Russians don't believe it (though too scared to say), most of officials don't believe, but obliged to. No one abroad believes it since it's a stupid thing Russia was doing forever. Diplomats, well they have to remain diplomatic and respond to everything as if it was true.