If any population needs help with media literacy, it's Murcans and Canucks.
So many people are repeating Putin's narratives that even anti-cons are believing them.
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So much of what is being flagged as "Russian disinformation" is being parroted (if not straight up propagated) by western news media, western social media, and western talking heads.
At what point does a Mercer-funded, MAGA-coded, Texas based, English language broadcast constitute American Media? Is this a "just one drop" rule, where any positive (or insufficiently negative) news item or talking point or image marks the entire operation as "Russian"? Are guys like Tim Pool and Alex Jones still Americans? Or are they Russian? Is Tucker Carlson, the son of a CIA director and a midwestern cattle-country heiress, a Presidential speechwriter and US cable news pundit and avowed Cold Warrior, a Russian? Is CNN Russian? Is Exxon Russian?
If I sing the Russian national anthem it doesn't become an American anthem because an American is repeating the words
Edit: you cant muddy the water fuckface. Russian propaganda is still Russian propaganda idiot
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*read and analyze content critically
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Everyone is vulnerable to manipulation. If you doubt this start a discussion about the Yemeni civil war and count the people blaming Saudi Arabia for starting the civil war that factually begins with the Houthi Militias attacking the capital. Those folks bought Iranian propaganda hopk line and sinker