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Nah, it's my personal experience from browsing twitter, reddit and several telegram accounts. I'm not going to waste time searching for examples to satisfy your

Nah, it's my personal experience from browsing twitter, reddit and several telegram accounts. I'm not going to waste time searching for examples to satisfy your unwillingness to accept my personal experience as valid. Do some research yourself, you'll see what I mean. By the way I literally added a source for the Orc slur to my comment, perhaps you missed that?

aguaviva 2y ago
When you said "propaganda" I thought meant from official sources or statements by well-known public figures - not random chatroom stuff on the internet. Either way - you've answered the question. All I can suggest to you is -- just forget about all those social media channels. They're an extremely warped reflection of reality and not representative of anything. Looking for sample material in these places from which to draw inferences about the broader sociopolitical situation (or even as to what Ukrainians or Russians are actually like as people) is like looking for dating advice on 4chan.
- ossobuco 2y ago
  Do you expect propaganda to only come directly from the government? Look at this operation by Israel for example[0]. The USA aren't new to this either[1]. A part of Wikipedia is literally a battle field between propaganda arms of different governments. What we see today is a new form of "organic" propaganda, with tons of fake social accounts repeating propaganda pieces coming from the top. That doesn't mean that you should take whatever any rando says as a propaganda covert operation, but if you see patterns over time, those can probably be traced up to governments, agencies or organized groups. - [0]: https://electronicintifada.net/content/inside-israels-million-dollar-troll-army/27566 https://electronicintifada.net/content/inside-israels-millio... - [1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63731751 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63731751
  - aguaviva 2y ago
    Right - and the fact that a lot of these accounts are fake should suggest that this whole milieu just isn't worth your time. It's just a wilderness of mirrors, basically. Its purpose is to drain your batteries and make you upset.

aguaviva 2y ago

When you said "propaganda" I thought meant from official sources or statements by well-known public figures - not random chatroom stuff on the internet. Either way - you've answered the question. All I can suggest to you is -- just forget about all those social media channels. They're an extremely warped reflection of reality and not representative of anything. Looking for sample material in these places from which to draw inferences about the broader sociopolitical situation (or even as to what Ukrainians or Russians are actually like as people) is like looking for dating advice on 4chan.

ossobuco 2y ago
Do you expect propaganda to only come directly from the government? Look at this operation by Israel for example[0]. The USA aren't new to this either[1]. A part of Wikipedia is literally a battle field between propaganda arms of different governments. What we see today is a new form of "organic" propaganda, with tons of fake social accounts repeating propaganda pieces coming from the top. That doesn't mean that you should take whatever any rando says as a propaganda covert operation, but if you see patterns over time, those can probably be traced up to governments, agencies or organized groups. - [0]: https://electronicintifada.net/content/inside-israels-million-dollar-troll-army/27566 https://electronicintifada.net/content/inside-israels-millio... - [1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63731751 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63731751
- aguaviva 2y ago
  Right - and the fact that a lot of these accounts are fake should suggest that this whole milieu just isn't worth your time. It's just a wilderness of mirrors, basically. Its purpose is to drain your batteries and make you upset.