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The sinking of that "moskva" the failure to take kyiv. now vladamir putin is claiming russia liberated mariupol. he has to find some sort of win to give to the russian people are. they buying it though, is the question? >> you know, at the very least, don, i think putin has to walk away with at least the donbas and perhaps sort of that southern swath if he can convince the people he had a significant victory. he went in saying he was going to take over the whole country. that's a propaganda problem for him. he controls 99% of all the information that russians consume, so that helps. but eventu...

Control it when, you know, when their kids don't come back and they start talking amongst themselves. it is a propaganda problem for putin. >> and you have the moscow media conversations whether experts are talking about using an ever-increasing and escalating level of force. and other escalations. is that a precursor to what you think they are looking to do? >> i think they are going to use everything that they can and, you know, call them conventional weapons, if they don't do it, then they are going to escalate to come i think, stronger and stronger weapons. but i will tell you there is ano...

And reinvigoration of community support for democracy and its norms and values. and that's really where the disease is, is at the local and community level. that's where it has to be directed, plemt-style commitments to educaing people and working with communities to restore this, because all the talk about ath the global level isn't going to really help change the way that voters support rising political violence or continue to look the other way around voter suppression if issues -- or even support them or storm the capitol. all the things that ordinary citizens have done over the last year ...

>> we absolutely have a propaganda problem and a disinformation problem. but ultimately, i would argue it goes back to same issue. it's also media literacy and digital literacy. it's about equipping communities and individuals with the tools to recognize that propaganda, to be less persuaded by tactics like scapegoating or fear mongering, to understand and recognize this information, which, by the way, will only get worse when we have more deepfakes. we are going to be entering the moment with technology changes where it's even harder to tell what's real and what's not. so really investing and...

Thursday, 18 February 2021, 3:52 pm While we all fixate on electoral political solutions, the powerful focus on narrative control, because that's where real power is at. The people who pose an actual threat to the machine are those who disrupt its narratives and narrative control agendas. Everyone else is harmless. If the majority of a troubled population believes their political system is operating in a way that is demonstrably very different from the way it actually operates, then that population doesn't have a political problem, it has a propaganda problem. Berners watched the mass media ...