Oh my god there was an absolutely fawning piece in the Swedish papers today about "anonymous anti-russian desinformation elves" who bragged about telling the truth and fighting against the "Russian trolls" and the entire fucking time in the piece they never bring up the fact that "hey we have no idea who these guys are or if their counter-propaganda is real and verifiable".
Just regular propaganda playbook shit, anonymous sources and defectors = total bullshit, completely made up.
Edit: I realized how weird it sounds to say "anti-russian desinformation elves" but thats literally what they named themselves, theres a whole quote from them about how "Elves are pure and good beings that fight the evil dirty Trolls", they're fucking hiring Tolkien fans who just actually like the weird racial subtext in LOTR as propaganda experts now.
Love how if one's point supports the maintenance of the status quo you needn't provide any sources, and the lib media will spread it far and wide with no thought. But if I want to espouse some anti imperialism I need a whole book of receipts and a video of a politician saying that they're doing imperialism before anyone will believe it
Oh my god there was an absolutely fawning piece in the Swedish papers today about "anonymous anti-russian desinformation elves" who bragged about telling the truth and fighting against the "Russian trolls" and the entire fucking time in the piece they never bring up the fact that "hey we have no idea who these guys are or if their counter-propaganda is real and verifiable".
Just regular propaganda playbook shit, anonymous sources and defectors = total bullshit, completely made up.
Edit: I realized how weird it sounds to say "anti-russian desinformation elves" but thats literally what they named themselves, theres a whole quote from them about how "Elves are pure and good beings that fight the evil dirty Trolls", they're fucking hiring Tolkien fans who just actually like the weird racial subtext in LOTR as propaganda experts now.
Love how if one's point supports the maintenance of the status quo you needn't provide any sources, and the lib media will spread it far and wide with no thought. But if I want to espouse some anti imperialism I need a whole book of receipts and a video of a politician saying that they're doing imperialism before anyone will believe it
Honestly, just replace "anti-russian disinformation elves" with "annoying redditor" and the piece makes a lot more sense.