Russia ‘Spread Conspiracy Theories and Attacked Climate Scientists in Poland’ | False narratives spread through state-owned news sites and social media bots, report finds.

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1. “According to a major new report by Poland’s military counterintelligence service, which reviewed over 2,000 unclassified and classified documents from 2004 through to 2024.

   “The conclusions are alarming,” said the commission of 11 independent experts in a press release. The “cognitive war” waged by Russia, with the help of Belarus, would “lead to increased social polarization and devastation of trust in democratic structures and, as a result, to weakening and disintegrating the West.”

   The report, released in January, suggests that the Russian government and non-governmental groups were behind the misinformation drive. It also claimed that Moscow spent up to $4 billion a year on disinformation and “propaganda.

   The commission pointed to an onslaught of Russian-driven conspiracy theories and other forms of online disinformation over the 20-year period, “based on criticism and undermining confidence in democratic institutions and processes, including the government, NATO and the European Union”.

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