"Unwitting Westerners" they definitely be witting.
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There's also plenty of it through entirely witting Westerners.
Have you seen Gab? That is where most of it is dumped and consumed.
Russian trolls will push a US political point on Gab and right wing politicians will pick it up and spew it out on the news. It's really sickening if you ever decide to dig into that mess.
At least they're trying to. Fortunately, the Russian psyops seem pretty poor in this war and they haven't even managed to pull off any false flag operation to the point of causing contoversy among Ukraine's western allies, and the support remains as strong as one could hope for this long into the war.
In other news, water is wet.
I'm not even saying this is necessarily untrue, but the irony in this article is palpable.
If commenting on bias in reporting then I can't help but recall the seminal work on the topic in the West in Manufacturing Consent. , particularly the section of the model on sourcing.
I mean, how can you read this article about FSB influence and just ignore the sourcing sentence stating:
US intelligence agencies believe
Agencies we also know have deceived the public.
Again, this isn't unnecessarily untrue, but don't be blind to the other side of it either.
Not everyone you disagree with online is a witting/unwitting Russian agent, especially tiny Lemmy communities.
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It's scarey how much of the popular conservative media in the US seems to be paid off by Russia.
But you see it everywhere you look, there were just news reports of Nicholas Sarkozy bending over backwards to talk about how reasonable he thinks Putin is and how France needs Russia.
Fucking crazy, but some people really do listen to this shit and end up having their world views shaped by what they see as their trusted sources.
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The two countries with the most vaccines and the least number of people vaccinated are the US and Russia. Russia's vaccine isn't even from the evil west! But still people won't take it.
You propagandize enough people and they don't trust you when you're telling them the truth.
Newly discovered US official intel says "no u"