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Richard Fernandez
Oct. 4, 2017
There seems to be nothing the Kremlin "fake news" merchants can't accomplish. The Russians are now being credited with causing the breakup of Spain. "Russian propagandists scored a victory in Spain this weekend after “boldly injecting fake news and disinformation” into the debate over Catalonian independence and seemingly influencing the election results, according to U.S. information warfare experts." Each time the technique is the same: divide and conquer.
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Jonathan Capehart, writing in the Washington Post wryly describes "how we got played by the Russians on Facebook". How? They simply amplified the media's own biases until they created a kind of self sustaining feedback loop. The WaPo article gives an example of Putin's technique:
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