Russia is spreading fakes about war through a pre -laid network of foreign sites - AP
AP reminds that the European Union has already blocked the Kremlin propaganda channels of RT and Sputnik, which the aggressor country used to spread misinformation, but almost six months from the start of a full-scale war, the number of sites promoted by Russian narratives has increased sharply.
New York company NewsGuard, which studies and monitors the network misinformation, has found 250 sites that are actively spreading Russian lies about the war, to which dozens of new have been added in recent months. They reprint such Russian fakes as "crimes", allegedly committed by migrants from Ukraine in Germany and Poland, and "tuned" by Ukraine of the attack "in order to enlist the support of the world community".
According to NewsGuard, some of these sites are issued for "Independent Analytical Centers" or "News. " About half of them are English, the rest - French, German or Italian. Many of them were created long before the full-scale war and the obvious connection with the Kremlin was not traced until they began to actively promote the abstracts of the aggressor country.
NewsGuard Co -headed Bloodzuzuzu has suggested that Russian propagandists can create "sleeping sites" - resources for misinformation campaign, which slowly collected the audience on harmless or neutral messages, and for some moment switched to propaganda or misinformation.
A group of misinformation researchers of the Disinformation Sitiation Center found that after locking RT and Sputnik on YouTube, Tiktok and Meta platforms in the European Union, some video content of these propaganda channels simply redeveloped from new channels and accounts, which are not subject to.
"Instead of implementing effective content moderation systems, they play with the Kremlin's misinformation apparatus in" Kill a Mole "," said Felix Carde, a representative of the British Non -Commercial Organization of RESET. The facts identified by researchers indicate that Russia had a plan in case governments or technological giants try to block RT and Sputnik, writes AP.