• mellowheat@suppo.fi
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    9 months ago

    Western propaganda (mostly) doesn’t work via straight up lying or omitting the truth, it works by choosing what is amplified.

    Since you’re singling western propaganda out, is that somehow different from how non-western propaganda, like Russian or Chinese, works?

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      9 months ago

      Chinees and Russian propaganda needs to resort to direct censoring more often because they are not culturally powerful enough to control the narrative so there are subtle differences.

      But my point wasn’t about Russian or Chinese propaganda, it was about the fact that our image of Navalny is a construct of a western propaganda effort to create division in Russia.

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        9 months ago

        it was about the fact that our image of Navalny is a construct of a western propaganda effort to create division in Russia.

        He was one of the most visible and charismatic opposition leaders in Russia. That’s not just western invention.