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ChristoGrozev@bsky.social Profile picture
@christogrozev
Oct 30, 2022 • 10 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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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". ImageImage
Indeed, three days ago the Greek-owned portal "Modern Democracy" published an article with verbatim the same allegations. moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/10/27/pol…. Image
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. Image
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. ImageImageImage
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. Image
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". 👍 Image
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Interestingly (or not), almost every article on @MDiplomacyWORLD that relates to Russia/Ukraine is written by authors who write for Russian Intel information operations. ImageImageImageImage

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Because this "story" is getting some undue attention, I will explain how it first came to my attention and why I concluded it was not true (and helped some colleagues not rush with a misleading scoop).
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Putin has called an emergency meeting of the Russian security council today. While Russia's MoD has not yet acknowledged Ukraine's counter-incursion into Russia, Russian military telegram bloggers are sounding alarm (chart w/ scale of incursion from one of the telegram channels) Image
The MoD just came up with this bullsjit statement. Image
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Well, at least that settles the dispute whether it's small vs large scale.
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