La Russia inonda le elezioni ceche con disinformazione mentre Babiš conduce nei sondaggi
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-czechia-election-votes-disinformation-vladimir-putin-eu-petr-fiala/
di Wagamaga
La Russia inonda le elezioni ceche con disinformazione mentre Babiš conduce nei sondaggi
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-czechia-election-votes-disinformation-vladimir-putin-eu-petr-fiala/
di Wagamaga
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There’s a great deal at stake in the upcoming Czech election — for Russia. So perhaps it’s no wonder that Czechia has been flooded by pro-Russian disinformation of late.
A victory by populist right-winger Andrej Babiš, who is ahead in the polls, would see him join Viktor Orbán and Robert Fico around the EU table. The Hungarian and Slovak leaders are on friendly terms with Russian President Vladimir Putin and have consistently torpedoed EU unity on Ukraine.
Incumbent Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala has framed the Oct. 3-4 vote as no less than a battle over the country’s geopolitical future
“It’s about where the Czech Republic will go. Whether we remain a strong democracy, with full freedom, with prosperity, a country that is firmly part of the West … or whether we drift somewhere to the East,” Fiala told a rally in Plzeň in western Czechia earlier last week that was attended by POLITICO.
Against that backdrop, analysts have warned Czechia is being inundated by pro-Russian propaganda and disinformation.
The volume of fake news has increased steadily since Russia’s February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine to a record high of some 5,000 articles per month, according to Vojtěch Boháč, an investigative journalist with Czech outlet Voxpot.
For elections one should observe the actions and decisions they made before, not the trigger rhetoric they (or someone else) display.
>A recent Voxpot investigation found that the 16 largest disinformation websites churn out more content than all Czech traditional media outlets combined.
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>Articles ranged from critical takedowns of the EU and NATO to extraordinary conspiracy theories, including claims that Brussels is promoting cannibalism as a solution to climate change.
lol 😀
anyway 16 bullshitters spitting out bullshit in multiple times the volume is how you get “the mainstream media hide this from you!”, “they won’t tell you this!”, “they lie to you about this!” because the mainstream media really won’t show you shit like this, as they would have to start making shit up to be able to release as much content as the bullshitters who do invent their fictional shit 😀
This is just going to be every single European election until the current Russian state is dismantled – or our democracies are.
Europe will pay a very steep price for failing to understand the paradox of tolerance.
Countries should start considering election meddling as an act of war.
Imagine if Hitler had been allowed to broadcast propaganda to the allies civillian freely during ww2… why arn’t we treating those spreading it as traitors….
The only advantage of democratic systems is that the government is often more in touch with reality compared to autocrats like Putin who never leave their castles and are informed by an army of “yes-men” who tell him what he wants to hear fearing to fly from a window.
But unfortunately that doesn’t mirror over common people and their voting.
When is EU going to do something about this? You can’t let propaganda run rampant.
Russia is at war and the only ones realising that in Europe are collaborating, e.g left and right parties in the south of Europe.
We are screwed.
The international community needs to economically cripple Russia into utter irrelevance.
This shit hole of a country invests 0% of their energy into making Russian lives better, and instead uses 100% of their energy to make everyone else’s worse.
There can never be diplomacy with a country like that, hopefully the world will learn this lesson as soon as the alcoholic bear starts choking on Ukraine.
Man, all that effort and planning just to sow discord. And for what? Can you imagine if they put the same amount of effort into lifting up their people and their standards of living? Having good relations with neighbours? Transforming their country?
Nah, we gotta subscribe to antiquated ways of thinking, engage in stupid wars, doom people to death and destabilise neighbours. “Me, me, me. Power, power, power. Hurr durr.”