Putin's propaganda is rooted in Russian history – and that's why it works
For hundreds of years, Russia has elevated its political leaders as figureheads. That’s part of what makes its propaganda so convincing.
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For hundreds of years, Russia has elevated its political leaders as figureheads. That’s part of what makes its propaganda so convincing.
America is being ‘hysterical’ about Russian troop buildups near the Ukrainian border. That’s the official news in Russia, where citizens are getting government’s preferred view of the Ukraine crisis.
America is being ‘hysterical’ about Russian troop buildups near the Ukrainian border. That’s the official news in Russia, where citizens are getting government’s preferred view of the Ukraine crisis.
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You've done it explicitly in violation of the law. >> right. this is the problem with facebook. is that there's no accountability in the sense that everything is so microtargeted, that the only people who -- well, we don't know yet who saw the russian ads, but the only people who see the things are the people to whom they were argumented. and no one else knows that they didn't see it, right? i could pick up "the wall street journal" and read the ads there. let's say i wanted a higher class of ads than my normal thing, i could do that with a paper, but with facebook, you'll never see piit. >> t...