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Russia to increase propaganda spending to historic high of $27 million per week. (www.pravda.com.ua)

submitted 5 days ago by homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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[-] wolf_2202@sh.itjust.works 53 points 5 days ago

Beware of the tankies, folks. I’ve seen them out here on Lemmy. They’re hopping from reddit and fb to here.

Keep your head on a swivel and remember that blog posts aren’t news articles.

[-] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago

This is a sudden realization? One of the main lemmy devs is a tankie, it’s an unfortunate stain on the client.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Can you support that please, I hadn't heard.

[-] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

https://fediversereport.com/lemmy-ask-you-anything-again/

For some reason my memmy client is just crashing in response to any attempt to search anything, but you can also just search “lemmy devs tankies” and find a bunch of stuff. They’re not exactly hiding it.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 11 points 5 days ago

Tankies didn’t hop from Reddit to here. Tankies literally created Lemmy.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Lemmy must be the B or C-teams, though. They are certainly not sending their best.

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

A cheap investment considering the returns.

Between this and the low cost of purchasing legislators, it's incredible we even have any functioning to our country.

Oh...

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

Of note: The US “Global Engagement Center” created under Obama to combat russian disinformation, among other things, has a budget somewhat less than US$27 million per week. It’s about six percent (6%) of that. In 2017, “Sleepy” Rex Tillerson decided not to fund it at all.

Why is the US government half-assing an important function like dismantling misinformation? Well, that department’s existence is vigorously opposed by one of the main political parties in the US and one batshit narcissistic billionaire social media owner.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Why is the US government half-assing an important function like dismantling misinformation?

Because the US government (and the associated political parties, think tanks, and strategists of various ideologies) are already hard at work triple-assing their own misinformation on behalf of themselves and their donors.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Ya know part of me can only think that this is money that could've been given to private conscriptovitch but is instead being used to influence US elections. I cant tell if thats money well spent by Russia or if theyre just fucking over their own troops.

[-] Tyfud@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

It's unfortunately money well spent.

If they spend $1billion in the war against Ukraine to buy a few missiles or tanks, vs spending the same during a key election cycle period to reduce the chance that we'll have a concerted congress that can deliver foreign aid to Ukraine in the tens/hundreds of billions long term, I'd say it's worth the cash.

I mean, it's already working. We've got dozens and dozens of politicians at the highest level, including Trump himself, completely and thoroughly compromised as Russian assets and ready to hand America and the rest of the world over on a platter to Putin, because they believe his lies.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Fair enough.

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 7 points 5 days ago

Thank God, maybe we can get some newer, fresher tankie mouthpieces.

These ones are getting tired and worn out.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Good. Let them run out their paltry psyops budget as fast as possible. The latest slate of sanctions is dooming their own people, and hopefully they do something about it.

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

This makes me wonder what other countries' propaganda budgets are.

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 days ago

Rookie numbers

[-] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world -3 points 5 days ago

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