> Russia has been at the forefront of internet disinformation techniques at least since 2014, when it pioneered the use of bot farms to spread fake news about its invasion of Crimea.
The idea that Russian or Soviet propaganda has ever (in the last 50 years) come close in potency to Western propaganda is itself a massive lie and propaganda campaign.
By the time the USSR collapsed, many Soviet citizens had positive/neutral views of Western culture if not politics. It was a total soft power defeat.
The meat of the article may be true, all countries and large orgs create propaganda, but this framing that we in the West are somehow playing "catch-up" is utterly false and misleading. Modern Russian propaganda is relatively pathetic and Putin himself admitted as much in his recent interview (which is itself a poor piece of propaganda for many reasons).
The idea that Russian or Soviet propaganda has ever (in the last 50 years) come close in potency to Western propaganda is itself a massive lie and propaganda campaign.
By the time the USSR collapsed, many Soviet citizens had positive/neutral views of Western culture if not politics. It was a total soft power defeat.
The meat of the article may be true, all countries and large orgs create propaganda, but this framing that we in the West are somehow playing "catch-up" is utterly false and misleading. Modern Russian propaganda is relatively pathetic and Putin himself admitted as much in his recent interview (which is itself a poor piece of propaganda for many reasons).