This piece explores Russia’s long history of antisemitism, alongside its current antisemitic disinformation and propaganda campaign targeting American youth. Tabarovsky also looks at Russia’s likeminded partners, and the implications for US national security.
  • fukhueson@lemmy.worldOP
    33·
    6 months ago

    Interesting opinion. Not the first time I heard of it (to be clear, Russia wasn’t accusing, it was social media users and Dugin). If you’re concerned with mbfc, this may not be the sub for you.

    https://gnet-research.org/2024/04/23/moscow-attack-the-popularisation-of-far-right-conspiracy-theories-in-mainstream-media/

    In the immediate aftermath of the 22 March attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall, social media was replete with misinformation, including conspiracy theories surrounding the affiliations of the perpetrators. Despite the terror cell Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) claiming responsibility for the mass shooting in a statement made to their Telegram and multimedia news outlet Amaq, users on 4chan and Instagram pointed to alternative culprits. In comments left on social media posts, users allude to fringe conspiracy theories popularised on 4chan, which posit that the United States and Israel are the real perpetrators of the attack, using the Islamic State as a shadowy force to carry out an orchestrated geopolitical agenda under the guise of terrorism. The idea that the CIA and Mossad either collaborated with ISKP or provided material support to the group spread from 4chan’s ‘politically incorrect’ (‘/pol/) community to mainstream social media platforms, making the pervasiveness of far-right misinformation visible to millions.

    This Insight will show how social media users have made conspiratorial claims about the role of Israel and the United States in the violent attack at Crocus City Hall that killed more than 130 people.

    • AmoxtliEnglish
      36·
      6 months ago

      There are American anti-Zionist, they are even Jewish anti-Zionist, and there are conspiracy theorists of all nationalities. What Russian citizens post on social media is not always going to be the stance of the Kremlin. This article you posted is an anti-Russian, pro-Israel Lobby propaganda; knocking out 2 birds with one stone? It has absolutely no credibility.

      • fukhueson@lemmy.worldOP
        33·
        6 months ago

        You could try providing high reliability sources that show something in the article is propaganda. Otherwise I think you just don’t like the article for personal reasons. And I really am losing your point about who was accusing who of the crocus attack.

        • AmoxtliEnglish
          16·
          6 months ago

          It is a disingenuous website. Another propaganda website is the Bush Foundation. This is how the Bush Foundation operates: everybody in the world wants freedom and democracy, so we’re going to give it to them with freedom bombs, and everybody will live happily ever after, because they have democracy, and they have freedom. Western think tanks justify US foreign policy. Western think tanks recommended that Ukraine join NATO before the Russian invasion. What for? What does the US want in Ukraine? Democracy? They already had democracy and apparently, in 2014, they didn’t like it. Not to mention, Ukraine is bounded by internationally recognized treaty to be neutral as a prerequisite for independence. The “think tank” thought a great idea to get Ukraine into NATO for the purpose of provoking a Russian invasion. That is exactly the point of this whole exercise. Listen, I read different perspectives, I know phony information and ulterior information; they are fundamentally disinformation, and misinformation. Another thing that might surprise you, democratic states create far more lies than autocracies, because for a democracy to control the people, and not actually represent them, they have to lie. Democratic government produce their own conforming elites who don’t fully represent the people. An autocracy does not need to lie to you, because it can do what it wants. Western news media is a joke. They totally create narratives for the foreign policy establishment. Why? Because they are loyal to their party, of course, but “free market” news media does not need to tell the truth to generate revenue or news.