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Re:Almost All of Facebook’s Top Christian Pages in 2019 Run ... by dragonwriter on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @11:02AM (#28694607)
> Sometime in all of this, Russia must have taken notice (or was quietly in the picture the entire time) and started spreading misinformation for the purpose of division rather than clicks.

Whenever they started doing that specifically through false-front Facebook groups, Russia has been doing that to the West nonstop, through most media that it could conceivably be done, since it became an independent country, taking over from the USSR which had been doing it for generations previously.

Re:Almost All of Facebook’s Top Christian Pages in 2019 Run ... by simiones on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:02PM (#28695544)
You are presenting this as if this is somehow unique to Russia. This is true of every large country against all of its rivals. Anything Russia is doing on this front is dwarfed by what the US, UK, France, Germany etc. are doing.

Somehow things like Russia Today are presented as blatant propaganda, while Radio Free Europe is neutral reality. Both are propaganda.

Re:Almost All of Facebook’s Top Christian Pages in 2019 Run ... by dragonwriter on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @01:41PM (#28697193)
> You are presenting this as if this is somehow unique to Russia.

No, I’m presenting it as if Russia was the topic of discussion when I joined.

> Anything Russia is doing on this front is dwarfed by what the US, UK, France, Germany etc. are doing.

Now you are falsely presenting it as Russia being uniquely moderate in this regard.

> Somehow things like Russia Today are presented as blatant propaganda, while Radio Free Europe is neutral reality.

RT and RFE are both propaganda, the latter more openly so, not less.

But the discussion here is about false-flag propaganda, not things like RT and RFE.