Counter-disinformation group says social media channels connected to Pravda network helped amplify message
Accounts with links to the Russian military promoting far-right messages reached more than 500,000 people in the early days of the Ceuta migration crisis, according to an analysis done by 411, a counter-disinformation group.
Russia-linked social media accounts frequently spread destabilising narratives in Europe, often promoting far-right talking points about immigration.
But 411 and other experts suggest the scale and coordination of the disinformation that followed the Ceuta crisis is significant. Groups spreading disinformation are more organised and powerful than they were several years ago.
Remember how they threw waves of migrants at the Eastern borders of the EU (Poland, Baltics) some years ago, then gleefully mocked admins for having a hard time dealing with it? Destabilization is the point. Erode trust in institutions and even human decency.
I wonder which platforms are enabling this. Surely security systems must flag this. Unless they even promote it, say algorithmically. Seems like the enablers or supporters should be liable if the platform is proprietary.
Mostly Telegram…