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> Within weeks (of the meeting of al-Bashir with Putin), Russian geologists and mineralogists employed by Meroe Gold, a new Sudanese company, began to arrive in
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> Within weeks (of the meeting of al-Bashir with Putin), Russian geologists and mineralogists employed by Meroe Gold, a new Sudanese company, began to arrive in Sudan, according to commercial flight records obtained by the Dossier Center, a London-based investigative body, and verified by researchers at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies.
Does anyone know how a non-profit "London-based investigative body" obtains call logs, commercial airline tickets, entry permits, visa applications, and browsing history of people they are investigating [1]?
[1] https://dossier.center/car-en/#p3-3 https://dossier.center/car-en/#p3-3
- postsantum 3y ago"OSINT" In practice that often means they do "parallel reconstruction" to launder information they receive from special services. This "investigative body" in question is owned by a disgraced russian oligarh
- from 3y agoI am aware of "probiv" where on Runet forums people advertise services where they basically pay people who work at phone companies or government agencies for data on people. This is mostly an ex USSR thing from what I can tell. I don't know how they got the records from Sudan/CAR though but I assume it's through some combination of bribery and their backers.
- postsantum 3y agohttps://www.mintpressnews.com/bellingcat-intelligence-agencies-launders-talking-points-media/276603/ https://www.mintpressnews.com/bellingcat-intelligence-agenci...
- _kbh_ 3y agoJust so you know mintpressnews is a website that publishes disinformation and leans heavily into conspiracy theories and regularly publishes pro Russian propaganda. I wouldn’t use it as a source of anything that the Russians would want to discredit (such as bellingcat). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintPress_News https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintPress_News
- postsantum 3y agoI do believe that over the last year words "disinformation" and "propaganda" lost 90% of meaning and turned into generic insults. Do you think this wiki article is written in a neutral manner?
- _kbh_ 3y ago> I do believe that over the last year words "disinformation" and "propaganda" lost 90% of meaning and turned into generic insults. That’s because we are seeing a lot more disinformation and propaganda in the past year, it’s a major part of Russias strategy to destabilise the west. Their website literally publishes anti western pro authoritarian propaganda. But if you want to just believe anything the Russian and other authoritarian regimes say go head. > Do you think this wiki article is written in a neutral manner? Yes.
- postsantum 3y ago>it’s a major part of Russias strategy to destabilise the west Do you think so even after the "Trump-Russia" fiasco and Twitter Files? >But if you want to just believe anything the Russian and other authoritarian regimes say go head. Trying not to engage in binary thinking
- _kbh_ 3y ago> Do you think so even after the "Trump-Russia" fiasco and Twitter Files? No I think so after the very obvious Russian propaganda that is being pushed all over the internet. There was even a notable uptick of Russian propaganda being pushed here after the war started. > Trying not to engage in binary thinking You haven't really addressed any of my points but thats okay, ill add some more for you, why do so many writers for MintPress Media have a history with working for Russias stated backed propaganda media arm RT?.
- postsantum 3y agoBellingcat hiring actual spooks -> nothing to see, move along MintPress hiring ex-RT -> it's propaganda arm On a serious note, I fail to see how RT is considered state-propaganda, but BBC is not