Think Fox News is bad? Russian state TV makes it look like 60 Minutes.

[Nevilledog]

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https://aaronrupar.substack.com/p/russian-state-tv-ukraine-war-coverage?s=w


I devote a lot of time and energy in this newsletter to exposing the right-wing spin and misinformation pushed by America’s top-rated TV “news” network. Russian state TV makes Fox News look like 60 Minutes.

Americans obviously learned a lot about Russian information warfare during and after the 2016 presidential campaign, when the Kremlin was involved in hacking Democrats and waging propaganda campaigns to sow division and help Trump. Russian state TV’s coverage of the war on Ukraine shows how those same disinformation tools are used to manipulate public opinion in Russia.

News broke early on Tuesday of terrible rocket strikes in central Kharkiv that killed at least 10 people and wounded 35 more. Footage quickly emerged of a prominent government building being demolished in a flash.

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Rob Lee
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Terrible footage from Kharkiv of what appears to be an MLRS rocket strike in the center of the city.
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March 1st 2022

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It seemed like a pretty clearcut case of Russia trying to demoralize the Ukrainian population by attacking civilian targets. But Russian TV got busy turning reality upside down.

Francis Scarr monitors Russian state TV for the BBC. On Wednesday, he detailed how the Gazprom-owned NTV channel told viewers that the government building in Kharkiv was actually blown up by the Ukrainian military. (State TV in Belarus ran with a similar story.)

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[Azathoth]

1. That's tame by Fox standards. Fox insinuated that FBI/CIA agents staged 1/6

[doc03]

2. I watched RT for a few minutes this afternoon. It is like an alternative universe they show

Russians liberating civilians and feeding them. It's the exact opposite of the pictures we see coming out of Ukraine.

[Nevilledog]

3. This guy live-tweeted the state propaganda program televised toat

I wanted to post it, but I could get threadreaderapp.com to work


Here it is if you want to see it......it's crazy evil

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