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Christo Grozev Profile picture
Christo Grozev
@christogrozev
Investigative journalist (Spiegel, The Insider, ex-Bellingcat), radio investor and hobby coder. Immediate blocks for whataboutism.

Oct 30, 2022, 10 tweets

A short 🧵 on how Russian intelligence launders fake news by using helpful EU "media".
A leading headline in Russian state media today is that "Poland plans to capture Western Ukraine and hold a referendum". The cited source is "the Belgian portal Modern Democracy".

Indeed, three days ago the Greek-owned portal "Modern Democracy" published an article with verbatim the same allegations. moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/10/27/pol….

The site ModernDemocracy.eu indeed exists, it's not flagged as a fake news site, it's editor in chief has a thriving LinkedIn profile and we even share 6 contacts, one of whom has endorsed him.

So all seems legit so far. Until you scroll down to the end of the Polish-occupation article, and see that it's in fact a reprint of a contribution by something called International Affairs. Clicking on the link you are taken to site of Russia's MFA.

Then you notice that the Russian government publication is not source 0, but itself reprints a translation from a Polish language website called Dziennik Polityczny. dziennik-polityczny.com/2022/10/19/hie…

So you wonder what Polish media would come up with this nonsense.. and then you look up it's editor in chief Adam Kamiński never existed, And the photo used for his profile was , does not exist, and his fake account uses a photo of an unsuspecting Lithuanian orthopedist.

Here are two good investigations into the so-called Polish portal en.rebaltica.lv/2017/05/who-pu…, oko.press/portal-z-falsz…
Tl;dr: it totally makes up fake news, fake interviews and fake people, all to push a Russian narrative.

Thus, a so-called "Invaluable platform for assessing complex international issues" became a willing accomplice in laundering a story from a fake news site, passed via a Russian government disinformation site, to be presented to the Russian people as "Belgium sourced info". 👍

Then again..

Interestingly (or not), almost every article on @MDiplomacyWORLD that relates to Russia/Ukraine is written by authors who write for Russian Intel information operations.

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