Millions of Russians turn to BBC News

[highplainsdem]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/millions-of-russians-turn-to-bbc-news

The audience for the BBC’s Russian language news website more than tripled its year-to-date weekly average, with a record reach of 10.7m people in the last week (compared to 3.1m).

In English, bbc.com visitors in Russia were up 252% to 423,000 last week.

Digital live pages, giving people updates, explanation, and reports from expert journalists on the ground, are proving hugely popular.
The live page in Russian covering the invasion was the most visited site across the whole of the BBC World Service’s non-English language services, with 5.3m views.

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[cilla4progress]

1. This would seem to be a positive

turn.

[Victor_c3]

2. How long until Putin turns off media he can't control? n/t

[Irish_Dem]

3. Probably soon. He cannot allow the Russian people to hear the truth.

[lindysalsagal]

4. I went to BBC and found a link to what Russians are seeing on government TV

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60571737

All lies, but here's the clever thing: They feed the russians the version russians like, then claim Ukraine is lying, and then play a physhological game that makes it difficult to reject the logic:

"To strike Kharkiv and say that it was Russia. Ukraine is hitting its own and is lying to the West. But is it possible to deceive the people?" it asks.

So, in order to reject the Russian lies, you have to admit to falling for the Ukrainian lies. Noone of the options are reality or truth: There are only lies, from each side.