'Acoustic attack' report on US diplomats in Cuba is flawed, neurologists say

Re:'Acoustic attack' report on US diplomats in Cuba is flawe... by ptero on Saturday August 18, 2018 @04:14PM (#17790402)

> If the tables were turned here and the Cubans or Russians were accusing us of a sonic attack we’d be screaming that it’s a disinformation campaign

I do not follow Cuban politics (and not much Russian), but Russia nowadays are always accusing USA of some evil -- watch the official 1st channel or read gov't radio transcript: planning an overthrow of their government (via supporting this or that NGO), destabilizing an economy, financing a war and killing Russian citizens (Ukraine, Syria), etc. etc.

Much of this is for internal consumption, and generally the reaction in the US from those who can read it and care to is "meh, business as usual". Trying to influence minds, for sure; but this is par for the course for politics.

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Re:'Acoustic attack' report on US diplomats in Cuba is flawe... by owenmarshall on Saturday August 18, 2018 @04:26PM (#17790465)

The only difference seems to be that we don’t have state media - our outlets are just as happy to claim Chinese military exercises are “practice bombing operations” against the US, and that a Russian plot exists to destabilize our democracy and hack our voting machines.

Our official sources are happy to demur, as they have around claims of sonic attacks - we are still “investigating” and “analyzing data”. We officially keep the claims at arms length.

We’ve figured out that a public-private partnership makes better agitprop.

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