Agriculture has been a prime target for Russian disinformation campaigns for at least a decade now. Unfortunately I am only aware of studies examining these in the Anglosphere (for instance: Dorius, S. F., & Lawrence-Dill, C. J. (2018). Sowing the seeds of skepticism: Russian state news and anti-GMO sentiment. *GM Crops & Food*, *9*(2), 53-58. or Ryan, C. D., Schaul, A. J., Butner, R., & Swarthout, J. T. (2020). Monetizing disinformation in the attention economy: the case of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). *European Management Journal*, *38*(1), 7-18. ), but it surely looks like they are conducting these in local languages too in every EU member state, which makes it extremely hard to connect the dots.
It would be vital to uncover these attacks simultaneously in different languages.
What tipped them off? The tractors with russian flags and farmers green deal protests that somehow concern themselves with gays and immigrants? Or numerous organizers of these protests being completely uninvolved with agriculture?
The Farmers in Bulgaria have 4 times more profit during and after Covid and want more money from the state.
/shocked
Lmao. It’s so funny to see in literally every news about any event on the planet the reason being Russia. We recently lost several wrenches at work. I swear to you, it was definitely the Russian government.
This is what happens when you are too afraid of escalation. The aggressor gets bolder by the day and you won’t even notice how time will come for you to die in trenches against endless waves of russian meat.
See this coming ?
Any kind of anti gov protest, for any reason, will be labeled, called out and persecuted as Russian subversion?
Would you tell me that the situation of farmers in Germany, France and elsewhere is fine and all the fuss is just russian made ?
What’s the response from the EU against this hybrid warfare?
Romanian farmers have a profitability rate higher than IT firms and they started protesting when changes in regulations meant that public institutions would start to require explanations on how subsidies are spent…
Ok, because I read this “argument” like a million times: ***”Oh yeahh, Russia is always behind everything hurr durr *irony off*”***
No, Russia obviously doesn’t operate like some Illuminati guys in the background pulling the strings of every protest in the West, but this deflection ignores the reality of their propaganda machine:
1.) They actively monitor anti-government movements, right wing talking points and other stuff that could create displeasure in the population against the government
2.) Then they target the specific audience / talking point at the time with misinformation / memes / fake news and spread it via Social Media
3.) The particular community picks up on the misinformation / memes / fake news and shares this stuff because they don’t give a shit about checking sources and just want to amplify their own displeasure. Local right wing movements also pick up on this and amplify these talking points.
4) There you go, you just helped to amplify mass protests (or general displeasure with the government, or whatever helps to create distrust in the population) inside a country with minimal effort via troll farms – all without “pulling the strings” in the background
So no, Russia isn’t responsible for all the problems here, or “behind” every protest and critique against our governments, but they sure as hell use every possibility to amplify these talking points and create a wedge inside our societies – and if you don’t see that, you’re either the most naive mofo on this planet or some russian troll yourself.
Yeah, lets blame Russia for all our problems, shall we, our very competent leaders have no say in what happens in EU. Maybe Russia is responsible for all the strikes in Slovenia currently, too. /s
Russia brought back the sunny days to burn northern hemisphere
Looks like Cozy Bear has spun up a new, amateurish Italian team.
I guess Putin’s Oligarchs have decided they don’t like Italy anymore because they can’t use their villas on lake Como and their super yachts are all impounded in Italian shipyards.
Yeah, a lot of us kind of suspected this already.
italy is the most pro-russian country in europe, and it is also the place where Russian propaganda takes root best
Russia has infiltrated Italian media through people like Alessandro Orsini and Marco Travaglio to name just two. They constantly spew Russian propaganda through Facebook, TV, and newspapers. And your average Italian eats it up. It’s baffling to me. You don’t have to love the USA or NATO, but you have to be a special kind of stupid to believe Russian lies.
Same in Poland proputin banners antiukraine banners and we had guy with USSR flag on tractor. And almost everyday we find someone who is very close with Russia.
Most blatant of propaganda. Everything bad is due to Russia, not because our EU politicians are corrupt and our entire system is build in a way that those who are wealthy have more influence than those who are not. There are between 10.000 and 20.000 lobbyists in Bruxelles who of course have only the best interest for the general public in their mind (spoiler: they don‘t).
Stop being sheeps. Our system is rigged against us, whether Russia also meddles with our system or not ultimately doesn‘t really matter. It‘s propaganda either from Western capitalists or Russian fascists.
When did the Russians start with this? 2019 during the Fridays for future protests? Or 2020 during the BLM riots?
So farmers protests are being weaponized by Russia💀 honestly just sounds like an excuse to use force to stop the protests
Im shocked… shocked I tell you!
I hope the protest is Peaceful
Maybe one day they will understand that Russia don’t create problem, they exploit them.
But it’s maybe too complicated for EU politicians, and it could displease lobbyists.
Meanwhile in France, around 2017 I think, there was 2 farmer that commited suicide (“sucessfull”) per day. UE doesn’t need Russia to destroy itself.
I knew it!
Thanks to this revelation, we know that all those protesters are russian paid trolls.
No one would ever protest otherwise, everything in Europe is perfect and there is absolutely no reason for anyone to protest. Unless you are paid by Russia.
No this is not North Korea, this is Europe – you better start loving it.
Arrest the Protesters NOW!!
*Surprised Pikachu*
At some point in Barcelona we had an indepentist protest that ended with some people burning containers and breaking the pavement. It was all over the news, everywhere.
When they interviewed the violent people, it was very, very clear that they weren’t Catalan people, some of them not even Spaniards.
I think that this happens more than we know.
So now every protest is a Russia backed protest? Yeah this totally won’t be abused by both EU politicians and European politicians to paint any criticism of their mandate as Russia backed.
I think we should make a temporary law outlawing paid advertising for protests. I know that generally it must be allowed to pay to advertise such events but at the current frequency they show up on social media I am unwilling to believe that these are paid by private individuals.
To be fair, Italian farmers do get paid 10 times less then the price of that same product sold in markets
“It’s a clumsy attempt, but you see the idea”; Russian media users are trying to grasp on the protest to force their ideology as do litteraly fucking everyone. The fact the EU has issues and uses Russia as a scapegoat to avoid fixing them just gives Russia legitimacy and furthers internal problems, and such misleading titles are not helping anyone
Look babe, another liberal brain rot just dropped!
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russia doing russia things, shocking I tell you
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Agriculture has been a prime target for Russian disinformation campaigns for at least a decade now. Unfortunately I am only aware of studies examining these in the Anglosphere (for instance: Dorius, S. F., & Lawrence-Dill, C. J. (2018). Sowing the seeds of skepticism: Russian state news and anti-GMO sentiment. *GM Crops & Food*, *9*(2), 53-58. or Ryan, C. D., Schaul, A. J., Butner, R., & Swarthout, J. T. (2020). Monetizing disinformation in the attention economy: the case of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). *European Management Journal*, *38*(1), 7-18. ), but it surely looks like they are conducting these in local languages too in every EU member state, which makes it extremely hard to connect the dots.
It would be vital to uncover these attacks simultaneously in different languages.
What tipped them off? The tractors with russian flags and farmers green deal protests that somehow concern themselves with gays and immigrants? Or numerous organizers of these protests being completely uninvolved with agriculture?
The Farmers in Bulgaria have 4 times more profit during and after Covid and want more money from the state.
/shocked
Lmao. It’s so funny to see in literally every news about any event on the planet the reason being Russia. We recently lost several wrenches at work. I swear to you, it was definitely the Russian government.
This is what happens when you are too afraid of escalation. The aggressor gets bolder by the day and you won’t even notice how time will come for you to die in trenches against endless waves of russian meat.
See this coming ?
Any kind of anti gov protest, for any reason, will be labeled, called out and persecuted as Russian subversion?
Would you tell me that the situation of farmers in Germany, France and elsewhere is fine and all the fuss is just russian made ?
What’s the response from the EU against this hybrid warfare?
Romanian farmers have a profitability rate higher than IT firms and they started protesting when changes in regulations meant that public institutions would start to require explanations on how subsidies are spent…
Ok, because I read this “argument” like a million times: ***”Oh yeahh, Russia is always behind everything hurr durr *irony off*”***
No, Russia obviously doesn’t operate like some Illuminati guys in the background pulling the strings of every protest in the West, but this deflection ignores the reality of their propaganda machine:
1.) They actively monitor anti-government movements, right wing talking points and other stuff that could create displeasure in the population against the government
2.) Then they target the specific audience / talking point at the time with misinformation / memes / fake news and spread it via Social Media
3.) The particular community picks up on the misinformation / memes / fake news and shares this stuff because they don’t give a shit about checking sources and just want to amplify their own displeasure. Local right wing movements also pick up on this and amplify these talking points.
4) There you go, you just helped to amplify mass protests (or general displeasure with the government, or whatever helps to create distrust in the population) inside a country with minimal effort via troll farms – all without “pulling the strings” in the background
So no, Russia isn’t responsible for all the problems here, or “behind” every protest and critique against our governments, but they sure as hell use every possibility to amplify these talking points and create a wedge inside our societies – and if you don’t see that, you’re either the most naive mofo on this planet or some russian troll yourself.
Yeah, lets blame Russia for all our problems, shall we, our very competent leaders have no say in what happens in EU. Maybe Russia is responsible for all the strikes in Slovenia currently, too. /s
Russia brought back the sunny days to burn northern hemisphere
Looks like Cozy Bear has spun up a new, amateurish Italian team.
I guess Putin’s Oligarchs have decided they don’t like Italy anymore because they can’t use their villas on lake Como and their super yachts are all impounded in Italian shipyards.
Yeah, a lot of us kind of suspected this already.
italy is the most pro-russian country in europe, and it is also the place where Russian propaganda takes root best
Russia has infiltrated Italian media through people like Alessandro Orsini and Marco Travaglio to name just two. They constantly spew Russian propaganda through Facebook, TV, and newspapers. And your average Italian eats it up. It’s baffling to me. You don’t have to love the USA or NATO, but you have to be a special kind of stupid to believe Russian lies.
Same in Poland proputin banners antiukraine banners and we had guy with USSR flag on tractor. And almost everyday we find someone who is very close with Russia.
Most blatant of propaganda. Everything bad is due to Russia, not because our EU politicians are corrupt and our entire system is build in a way that those who are wealthy have more influence than those who are not. There are between 10.000 and 20.000 lobbyists in Bruxelles who of course have only the best interest for the general public in their mind (spoiler: they don‘t).
Stop being sheeps. Our system is rigged against us, whether Russia also meddles with our system or not ultimately doesn‘t really matter. It‘s propaganda either from Western capitalists or Russian fascists.
When did the Russians start with this? 2019 during the Fridays for future protests? Or 2020 during the BLM riots?
So farmers protests are being weaponized by Russia💀 honestly just sounds like an excuse to use force to stop the protests
Im shocked… shocked I tell you!
I hope the protest is Peaceful
Maybe one day they will understand that Russia don’t create problem, they exploit them.
But it’s maybe too complicated for EU politicians, and it could displease lobbyists.
Meanwhile in France, around 2017 I think, there was 2 farmer that commited suicide (“sucessfull”) per day. UE doesn’t need Russia to destroy itself.
I knew it!
Thanks to this revelation, we know that all those protesters are russian paid trolls.
No one would ever protest otherwise, everything in Europe is perfect and there is absolutely no reason for anyone to protest. Unless you are paid by Russia.
No this is not North Korea, this is Europe – you better start loving it.
Arrest the Protesters NOW!!
*Surprised Pikachu*
At some point in Barcelona we had an indepentist protest that ended with some people burning containers and breaking the pavement. It was all over the news, everywhere.
When they interviewed the violent people, it was very, very clear that they weren’t Catalan people, some of them not even Spaniards.
I think that this happens more than we know.
So now every protest is a Russia backed protest? Yeah this totally won’t be abused by both EU politicians and European politicians to paint any criticism of their mandate as Russia backed.
I think we should make a temporary law outlawing paid advertising for protests. I know that generally it must be allowed to pay to advertise such events but at the current frequency they show up on social media I am unwilling to believe that these are paid by private individuals.
To be fair, Italian farmers do get paid 10 times less then the price of that same product sold in markets
“It’s a clumsy attempt, but you see the idea”; Russian media users are trying to grasp on the protest to force their ideology as do litteraly fucking everyone. The fact the EU has issues and uses Russia as a scapegoat to avoid fixing them just gives Russia legitimacy and furthers internal problems, and such misleading titles are not helping anyone
Look babe, another liberal brain rot just dropped!