Russia’s disinformation war on the UK has reached new highs as Kremlin-backed media seek to sow chaos amongst Britons and ramp up attacks on their “main adversary”, experts warn.
In the past six months, state-affiliated media have pushed hundreds of thousands of stories on social media portraying Britain as ungovernable, defenceless, and a legitimate Russian target, The Independent can reveal.
Analysis by risk intelligence firm Osavul, which tracks global hybrid threats and supplies technology to Nato, shows such media output rose by around 15 per cent in September, when it produced around 40,365 stories about the UK, while similar levels of disinformation pushed in October.
False claims that the UK bombed the city of Voronezh with storm shadow missiles, that British police were threatening to arrest people for using air conditioners, and that Andy Burnham was “powerless to stop the UK’s collapse” are among several posts seen by The Independent.
Osavul said the aim was “to leave British readers with a lower opinion of their own state, and readers abroad with the sense that Britain is not a serious power”.
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This is the usual whataboutism and an outright lie. I just searched the website and found numerous articles critical of alleged Israeli influence in the UK, including Labour, Conservatives, and others.
Last article I can see from the independent explicitly on the Israeli influence in British politics is from 2014 you absolute liar.
I also find it interesting how you don’t deal with the rest of my comment. Maybe because the full context of the comment reveals it wasn’t “whataboutism” but a comparison in what real influence actually gets you, and the utter ineffectiveness of so-called Russian misinformation.
France investigates whether Israeli firm BlackCore interfered in local elections - (May 2026)
It’s time to put [British] Conservatives’ links with Israel under the spotlight, a comment’s headline said in April 2024.
I found these and more articles literally within a minute.
You are just one of these 15-year olds who are so monopolized by propaganda that they can no longer make even a simple web search and read comprehensively.
And what makes things worse is your tonality. We all can make mistakes, but your I-know-the-ultimate-truth-and-everyone-else-is-wrong tankie style approach prevents you from thinking critically. It does nothing than hurting your own personal development.
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First one - French not British. Edit: also look at the vastly different way it treats the concept of Israeli influence to Russian influence: lots of fact-checking by Reuters, making sure the readers know there’s no possible link to Israel, conjuring the idea that the left wing in France are jumping at shadows and falling for anti-semitic lies.
Second - Guest commentary and columns that require membership don’t show up in normal search engines, and also are clearly not the same as an actual attempt at a “news” article. “And more” also doing a lot of heavy lifting.
You constantly re-post articles that confirm your biases on China and Russia (most of which are absolutely partisan hack-quality trash that are basically excuses to quote anti-Russian and anti-China parliamentary sub-groups - I.e. not factual and barely news), and you have the audacity to talk about being “monopolized (sic) by propaganda”?
Why did I find it then and you don’t?
It showed up for me when I looked back at my search on like the third page of results - probably because fuck all people read it because it’s locked behind a paywall and the fact, as stated, that it isn’t a news article. Interestingly, here’s the political editor of the Independent on why he believes Keir Starmer’s government didn’t act sooner against Israel https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-israel-gaza-starmer-david-lammy-sanctions-trade-b2754928.html
Here is him smearing the idea that there is undue Israeli influence in the labour party:
The ‘real reason’?
First, you say it doesn’t show up. Now, as it is clear that this is wrong, you are fabricating the next (false) narrative only then to deflect into another topic.
And, again, here are more than these two.
But more importantly, it has nothing to do with Russia ramping up the disinformation war on the UK with propaganda claiming Britain is ‘ungovernable and defenceless’
It didn’t show up until I clicked through multiple pages of results. I will concede that makes me incorrect that paywalled articles still technically eventually show up in search results. All good now, nitpicker? It still doesn’t change that it is not a news article and can’t be passed off as such, and that I have now shown the explicit stance the paper’s political editor has on the mere concept of Israeli influence in British politics. Nor has it changed my initial point that Russia’s “disinformation war” is clearly ineffective and irrelevant besides as scaremongering when the government, the opposition and mainstream political media and thought is basically 100% behind deep-throated support of Ukraine, NATO and expanding military spending. Maybe the article could talk about US influence and “dis-information” because it’s clearly more effective that whatever shit Russian affiliated news sources are able to achieve.