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Counter-disinformation group says social media channels connected to Pravda network helped amplify message

Accounts with links to the Russian military promoting far-right messages reached more than 500,000 people in the early days of the Ceuta migration crisis, according to an analysis done by 411, a counter-disinformation group.

Russia-linked social media accounts frequently spread destabilising narratives in Europe, often promoting far-right talking points about immigration.

But 411 and other experts suggest the scale and coordination of the disinformation that followed the Ceuta crisis is significant. Groups spreading disinformation are more organised and powerful than they were several years ago.

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Perhaps it's time to revive the term "running dog curs" for Putin's fascist stooges?

[–] Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago

Russia? A far-right nexus?

Shocking. Truly shocking.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

“We keep seeing this across Europe and we find it very interesting. It seems like there is some type of machinery in place, or structure,” said Saman Nazari, the lead researcher at Alliance4Europe, a Brussels-based nonprofit.

“Quite regularly, we are seeing this escalation happening across Europe now, with these types of crises. It is too much of a coincidence to be a bandwagoning effect.”

Remember how they threw waves of migrants at the Eastern borders of the EU (Poland, Baltics) some years ago, then gleefully mocked admins for having a hard time dealing with it? Destabilization is the point. Erode trust in institutions and even human decency.

[–] dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I wonder which platforms are enabling this. Surely security systems must flag this. Unless they even promote it, say algorithmically. Seems like the enablers or supporters should be liable if the platform is proprietary.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 points 4 days ago

Mostly Telegram...

[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Shocking that Putler of Russian and Beelzebibi of AIPAC would adopt the same strategy to deal with their war aggression.

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i was just going to comment to wait for the leftist loons to link this to the jews

back of the net well played

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

And I was waiting for someone to conflate the policies of Likud and its coalition partners with all Jews. But it's too lazy and boringly predictable a response to say well-played.

[–] Addition@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

I had not heard of this before. Here's the wiki page for anyone else interested in learning about this event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Morocco%E2%80%93Spain_border_incident

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Gee I wonder which other entity is linked to migration hate propaganda influencers. Guess we will never find out

[–] geezett@sh.itjust.works -4 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Sure, such a benign government, who could possibly have expected such hostile behavoir?