Russian Fake News ... or not

[oldcolner]

Nice to see Putin being targeted with some stories
No 1

Vladimir Putin's daughter's wedding photos have been leaked as a report claims his son-in-law bought a $380million stake in a Russian petrochemical firm for $100 after marrying her.

Kirill Shamalov, 38, bought the stake in petrochemicals giant Sibur at a massively reduced rate months after marrying Putin's younger daughter Katerina Tikhonova, 34, according to the investigation by iStories.

Putin's private life is so secretive that the Kremlin has never even confirmed the identities of his daughters, although the US government has named Shamalov as Putin's son-in-law and a member of the country's 'billionaire elite'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...stake-100.html


The photographs from Shamalov and Katerina's three-day nuptials at the Igora ski resort in Russia in 2013 break Putin's taboo over never revealing details of his family life.

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny branded the deal a '$380 million wedding gift', intimating high level corruption.

Responding to the latest reports, the Kremlin said the investigations into Putin's family were 'lies that are unable to reach their goal'.

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No 2
Vladimir Putin has secretly moved to Sochi during the pandemic, going so far as to have a replica office built to convince Russians he's still in Moscow, anti-Kremlin media reported.

Proekt media said on Monday that the Russian president is now based almost permanently in Sochi, a city on the Black Sea around 1,000 miles (1,609km) from the capital.

The reported move is just the latest rumour swirling around Putin and came as his spokesman strongly denied claims that he was suffering from potentially serious health problems.

Dmitry Peskov hinted that an unspecified enemy is behind the rumours which have surfaced in recent weeks.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...dia-claim.html

Lol

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No 3
VLADIMIR Putin has cancer - as well as symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease - and had emergency surgery in February, it was claimed today.

Political analyst Valery Solovei - whose earlier claims about the Russian strongman’s failing health were denied - also said Putin plans to announce his Kremlin exit early in the New Year.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/132534...gency-surgery/

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No 4
Moscow sources close to Mr Putin have claimed the 68-year-old leader has begun developing symptoms of Parkinson’s, which affects the brain and can cause shaking and stiffness. Observers noted that Mr Putin is beginning to show signs of weakness in his hands, struggling to hold pens, as well as constantly twitching his leg. Mr Putin has served more than 20 years as Russian president over two terms, and recently won a referendum on changing the term limits for leaders of the country. It comes as the President is also pushing through legislation granting him additional powers and immunity if he were to resign as leader of Russia.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world...parkinsons-ont

[Altobelli]

Phuck me ! This could be the longest thread ever.. . . . . . . .

[The Bedlington Terrier]

This is absurd.

Football and geopolitics should never be mixed.

[oldcolner]

This is absurd.

Football and geopolitics should never be mixed.

It’s all these caballs BT

Another

The Russian agency that interfered in the 2016 US election created a fake leftwing news publication, staffed it with fake editors with AI-generated photos and hired real freelance reporters as part of a fresh influence operation detected and removed by Facebook, the company said on Tuesday.

The latest operation by the Internet Research Agency (IRA) was still in its early stages when it was detected thanks to a tip from the FBI, according to Facebook’s head of security policy, Nathaniel Gleicher. The network had 13 accounts and two pages, with about 14,000 total followers.

The Facebook accounts and pages were designed to bolster PeaceData.net, an English- and Arabic-language website that claims to be a “global news organization”, but whose editorial staff are fictitious. Headshots of PeaceData’s “staff” were created using Generative Adversarial Networks, a type of AI that can produce lifelike images of faces, according to Graphika, a social media analysis firm that produced a report on the IRA operation.

“They put substantial effort into creating elaborate fictitious personas, trying to make fake accounts look as real as possible,” Gleicher said.

Many of the characters had profiles on Twitter and LinkedIn. Twitter said on Tuesday that it had suspended five accounts associated with PeaceData for “platform manipulation that we can reliably attribute to Russian state actors”. The company said tweets from the accounts were “low quality” and “spammy”, and that it would block links to content from PeaceData. LinkedIn did not immediately respond to a query.

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...ency-fake-news

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I've been nicked OC!

[Norder]

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think of a slobbering dog when it hears the musical intro to the nightly news - if you condition and contain people into a predictable box of unquestioning, consumers of contrivance....then it goes without saying, that that section of the people will be the most receptive to attacks of emotional arousal....it was/is the game, to curtail the ability to self minister...the inactivation and capitulation of critical questioning replaced with the states unbalanced sugar coated opinions of sleep inducing inactivation.
As for the counterpropoganda...today, can be easily silenced through the monopoly outlets of Tv/Media created reality, through covert programming or technological censorship - and can be just as easily angled back to the target audience (add/promote fear) to deliver them further behind the mainstream narrative.
Where the real problem arises, is when any Truth that opposes or is seen as a danger to the governing narrative...is unquestioningly ignored, promoted as false - and placed as inferior to the partial and predjudiced commentary of disinformation.

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Russia Today and Sputnik are Russia’s two main state funded news outlets abroad, with offices in London and Edinburgh

In January 2019, Facebook removed 289 pages and 75 accounts that the company said were used by Sputnik for misinformation on Facebook.
The removed pages posed as independent news sites in eastern Europe and elsewhere but were actually run by employees at Sputnik. It was another in a series of actions taken by Facebook against Russian disinformation

RT UK is a British free-to-air television news channel, part of the RT network, a Russian state-owned international television network.

For purportedly expert analysis of world events, RT turns to an assortment of racists, neo-Nazis, UFO buffs, 9/11 conspiracy theorists and obscure fantasists. Admittedly it's also been commended for balance and fairness – by the British National Party

Broadcasters include a George Galloway and Alex Salmond.

The £200,000 fine handed out by Ofcom to the TV network RT (formerly Russia Today) for repeatedly breaching impartiality rules over its coverage of the Skripal poisoning is a powerful reminder of the tactics Russia employs to manipulate public opinion in the west. The daily deluge of disinformation produced by RT and Sputnik is a ***** component of the tactics that other authoritarian regimes are seeking to replicate.

Monitoring and measuring the output of these state-controlled broadcasters is ***** to understand how hostile nations are attempting to influence audiences around the world by utilising fake news, disinformation and propaganda.