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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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.