[HN Gopher] Information Warfare Is Without Limits and So Are Its...
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Information Warfare Is Without Limits and So Are Its Consequences
Author : grzm
Score : 38 points
Date : 2022-02-26 20:37 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| ZeroGravitas wrote:
| Kind of strange to feature an interview with a USSR defector in
| 1984 talking about how the baby boomer generation had been
| brainwashed into marxist-leninism by soviet propaganda and were
| about to plunge the US into authoratarian communism, and then be
| shot by the new soviet rulers.
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| I'm relatively sure that didn't happen.
| mempko wrote:
| Only focused on Russian information warfare. Doesn't look at US
| and European information warfare. This article is onesided.
| BLKNSLVR wrote:
| But it's directly related to current events that are of intense
| interest to the rest of the world.
|
| Just because it's not comparing the actions to each and every
| other country doing similar things does mean it's content or
| tone is incorrect.
| rossmohax wrote:
| Today I have listened on LBC radio a program with an expert on
| Ukraine from Cambridge university. Stated goal was to educate
| listeners on Russia&Ukraine history.
|
| I was unpleasantly surprised by amount of facts mending and
| innacuracies to draw very polarized picture. All important
| answers were either factually incorrect (like Putin didn't have
| problem with Baltic's joining NATO in 2004), very flexibly
| interpreted or missed very important context cherry picking
| facts.
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| It wasn't blatant propaganda, but they didn't even try to show
| complexity of the topic.
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