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Bedbug panic was stoked by Russia, says France (www.lemonde.fr)

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[–] cygon@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I'd like to believe that our intelligence communities do, but I don't know.

What I do know that that Russian propaganda tries to "immunize" their marks against mismatching views. One method is to pull them out of the shared media ecosystem by seeding distrust against non-aligned media. Another is to associate any undesirable viewpoints with weakness, idiocy or perversion.

Last but not least, Russia already tested a complete internet disconnect of their country so they could isolate their own population from anything not state controlled, should the tide turn or an emergency happen.