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Russian court. joined now by ukrainian journalist mark sachuck, working to get military equipment to ukrainians. its good to have you on. >> hi. >> one of the issues with this war, russia, largely a propaganda bubble. lying to people about whats going on there. what does it mean to see a russian journalist make such a stand as she did on that russian state tv broadcast? what does it mean to you? >> its definitely good that we see examples of people speaking o out. incredibly important. a big att...

Prices were higher. the complaint, though, it feels as if when oil prices go up, gas prices go up like a rocket. >> yeah. th theres no lag time there. >> but when oil prices come down, they come down like a feather. thats the big issue theyre trying to call out. >> its like when you make a charge on your credit card, its there immediately, and when you return something, it takes days for that money to come back to you, and thats the frustration. >> exactly. >> well see if this does anything to c...

The past and the russians have been very aggressive about creating influencers in the spaces. and so it is good to see that at least the ground is not being left open in the same way that it was before. >> yes, and the thing is michael, and you kind of look on the opposite side of what is taking place inside of russia, it is a completely different dynamic. the state run media is controlling the narrative, the russian government is prohibiting words from being used. cant even say war. or invasion...

Methodically over the last two decades to turn russian society into a kind of propaganda bubble. i dont believe he can wall off indefinitely russians from the truth as reality is starting to puncture that bubble. >> it is not just ukrainians flee but russians are leaving their homeland for the iron curtain fully descends on russia. here is a shopping mall in moscow as stores are shuttered because of historic sanctions. the kremlin is escalating the crackdown on dissent. more than 13,000 antiwar ...

Very different politically, ideologically systems made the same mistakes. as you can see in the film, that misinformation and disinformation are invisible and are hard to detect, but they are not -- the so-called democratic countries are not immune to it. as we see it here, the same level of misinformation happened and was spread from the top of the government, from the top leaders. when that happened, the ordinary people are consuming those narratives and the result is a huge tragedy and devast...

Government that is unambiguous about the fact they think theyre winning. russia attacked our election, had a very successful operation both through cyber warfare and information warfare. now they have donald trump who then theyre saying were winning. you know, hes ours. donald trump is ours. is that your assessment of things? >> vladimir putins regime is based on a propaganda bubble. it wasnt the first thing president putin did 19 years ago. he went after the independent media and independent te...

Powerful media outlets in the world. it was a sophisticated online push that put russian propaganda on the release the memo. were all more vulnerable online, but were more likely to live in all kinds of information bubbles. you can think of it like a less extreme version of the 1998 classic show, truman burbank lived inside a propaganda bubble, but it was all fake streets, fake news, all to produce the first 24/7 self-enclosed reality show. truman began blissful in his infi infor rans. >> in cas...

Lanouf, but they are meeting resistance as they are going outside of ras lanouf, trying to head toward tripoli, which the rebels say is their ultimate goal. around tripoli, there is the second battle front, really in two main towns, zawiyah and misratah, where there are exchanges of fire and different reports as the army claims to be taking control, then the rebels claim to be pushing the gadhafi forces out. so, that, in those two villages around tripoli, you have a fluid situation with at times...

Are slitting the throats of women in the streets. then when we speak to witnesses in these villages and we speak to our own reporters who are on the scene in the battlefield of eastern libya, were hearing a totally different picture. that the rebels are advancing from the east, they are taking up positions in two strategic towns, one about 30 miles west of here in tripoli, the other about 150 miles to the east of tripoli. so in the center of the city there is a propaganda bubble. and the people ...