Thread by @SMBWhitney, Aug 2020 A MUST READ TO SPOT DISINFO U.S GEC Special Report: [...]

Aug 2020 A MUST READ TO SPOT DISINFO

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U.S GEC Special Report: Russia’s Pillars of Disinformation and Propaganda The Kremlin bears direct responsibility for cultivating these tactics and platforms as part of its approach to using information as a weapon. https://www.state.gov/russias-pillars-of-disinformation-and-propaganda-report/">https://www.state.gov/russias-p...

GEC Special Report: Russia's Pillars of Disinformation and Propaganda - United States Department of...

The Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) is leading and coordinating efforts of the U.S. Federal Government to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign propaganda and disinformation....

https://www.state.gov/russias-pillars-of-disinformation-and-propaganda-report/

The ecosystem consists of five main pillars:

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Russia& #39;s Kremlin "invests massively in its propaganda channels, its intelligence services and its proxies to conduct malicious cyber activity to support their disinformation efforts, and it leverages outlets that masquerade as news sites or "

"research institutions to spread these false and misleading
narratives. This report also focuses specific attention
on Russia’s tactic of leveraging proxy voices that proliferate pro-Kremlin disinformation and propaganda."

Aug 7, 2020 Today& #39;s REAL LIFE EXAMPLE BY GOP SENATORS
brought to our attention by Rep. Eric Swalwell https://twitter.com/politicususa/status/1291832616862220293?s=19">https://twitter.com/politicus...

https://twitter.com/politicususa/status/1291832616862220293?s=19

Russia is ACTIVELY TARGETING OUR 2020 ELECTION
Read this report to learn the tricks they are using

"By simultaneously furthering multiple versions of a given story,
these actors muddy the waters of the information environment in order to confuse those trying to discern the truth.The perpetual conflict that Russia sees in the information environment also means that "

"officials & state media may take one side of an issue, while Outlets w a measure of independence will adopt their own variations on similar overarching false narratives." RU ecosystem approach is fitting for this dynamic because it prefers disharmonize among different pillars.

"The [GEC] report also includes brief profiles of select proxy sites and organizations that occupy an intermediate role between the pillars of the ecosystem with clear links to Russia and those that are meant to be fully deniable. "

"The emphasis on these proxy sites is meant to highlight the important role they play, which can be overlooked given the attention paid to official Russian voices on one end of the spectrum, and the social media manipulation and cyber-enabled threats on the other."

How Russian Propaganda Spreads

This is a huge ex. of Russian 2020 Election Interference

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