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Oct 23 • 2 tweets • 1 min read
Keep in mind with these sorts of claims that Russia spent a few years in Syria claiming a false flag chemical attack was going to happen once a fortnight, and nothing came of those claims, nor did they pre-empt Syrian government chemical attacks. It's just their propaganda churn.
Here's a piece we did back in 2018 on that, and there were dozens more examples after we published bellingcat.com/news/mena/2018…

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Oct 24
Ever wonder how Russian cruise missiles find their way into Ukrainian playgrounds, power stations, and apartment buildings? Well thanks to @bellingcat’s @christogrozev wonder no more. It’s time to meet the team behind the targeting of Russian missiles on civilian infrastructure. Image
Scourge of the Russian intelligence services, Christo Grozev, has spent the last several months piecing together the team responsible for programming Russian cruise missiles launched at targets in Ukraine, frequently hitting civilian infrastructure. Image
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Oct 24
So to give you a sense of how full of shit the Russians are, the top left image on the first slide is from a Syrian film production of a movie about the White Helmets faking chemical attacks, stills from which Russia previously used in their propaganda.
bellingcat.com/news/mena/2018… Image
Back in 2018 Russia 1 used production stills from the movie as evidence of the White Helmets faking attacks on civilians. You can find the production stills on the film's own Facebook page facebook.com/99314651083244… ImageImageImageImage
That's 2022 Russian propaganda using stills from a 2018 Syrian anti-White Helmets propaganda film, which Russian media in 2018 used as direct evidence of the White Helmets creating propaganda.
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Oct 21
To build on this, my personal belief is most counter-disinformation work fails to address the fundamental issues that lead to the creation of disinformation, and generally misunderstands the source of disinformation in the first place.
The focus is often on outside actors (ie Russia) influencing communities through disinformation, when the reality is its more often communities themselves who create disinformation through their own efforts to counter what they see as disinformation.
That's then amplified by state actors when it suits their needs, so to truly address disinformation we need to understand why those communities create disinformation, and look at how to address that.
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Oct 20
The latest reporting from @bellingcat and @LHreports's QAnon analysis platform examines the spread of conspiracy theories among Dutch farmers that fuelled protests that made its way all to Tucker Carlson's show.
trouw.nl/verdieping/hoe…
These ideas reached a broad US audience when Tucker Carlson aired them back in July, with Eva Vlaardingerbroek providing the details of the theory to his audience:
As day follows night, Donald Trump even began to mention Dutch farmers following Tucker Carlson's coverage of the events and the theories fuelling them.
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Oct 4
Not that we need reminding, but Roger Waters yet again reveals he's totally infested with tankie brainworms.
His comments about the US reveal his totally reductive world view, the US is the greatest evil in the world therefore anyone he thinks is in opposition to the US must be on the right side. It's incredibly stupid, but not untypical among a certain type of person.
My belief is the root of this is what I like to call "traumatic moral injury", where an individual suffers such a severe moral injury from an event or series of events (often legitimately) they start seeing the entire world through the lens of that injury.
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Sep 27
The new United Nations Human Rights report on the situation in Ukraine from Feb 1st to July 31st 2022 is now out ohchr.org/sites/default/…
The report opens with the numbers of deaths and attacks on civilian infrastructure confirmed by the UN investigators, with at least 5,385 persons killed and 7,264 persons injured, and 252 medical facilities, 384 educational facilities and 90 places of worship damaged or destroyed
33 out of 38 civilians released from Russian captivity reported torture and ill-treatment while in detention in interviews with the OHCHR, and 34 additional complaints of torture and ill-treatment were reported to the OHCHR.
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