Annexation of Crimea ("Little green men were locals")
Donbas ("we are not involved", "Genocide")
MH17 ("Ukrainians did it")
Invasion ("Denazification", "war crimes are staged")
Poisoned Skripals ("our guys were just tourists")
...and some still don't notice the pattern? Why?🧵
Donbas ("we are not involved", "Genocide")
MH17 ("Ukrainians did it")
Invasion ("Denazification", "war crimes are staged")
Poisoned Skripals ("our guys were just tourists")
...and some still don't notice the pattern? Why?🧵
I guess the reason is, it is almost impossible to keep track of all the disinfo-narratives, fake-stories and distractions produced by the Kremlin's propaganda machine. It seems to me, that some people think that after several lies, there must follow some truth, but that's wrong.
In some cases, if ideology and reality do not fit together at all, good old #whataboutism or #bothsidesism "helps" to solve the dilemma: "all sides are lying", "you can't trust anyone" . Indeed, it is a complex world, you can find lies everywere, but the extent is different.
Is a system based on state controlled propaganda or are we talking about democratic, open societies?
In the moment we equalize totalitarian systems to free countries, our democracy and our sense of reality is on stake.
In the moment we equalize totalitarian systems to free countries, our democracy and our sense of reality is on stake.
We are vulnerable to disinformation, not despite but because of our values: Freedom of speech and a sense self criticism that one hand helps us to develop but on the other hand sometimes goes so far that autocracies are able to misuse our confessions against us.
The challenge is, many of us have no clue on how many levels disinformation by non-democratic actors is influencing our mindset, we should better learn fast, until it is too late.
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