A UK-registered media company is spreading Russian state disinformation to millions of people in the Arab-speaking world.

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1. Coincidentally, there is a new article in Politico about the same topic.

   [Russia is waging a disinformation war in the Middle East](https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-sputnik-rt-russia-is-waging-a-disinformation-war-in-the-middle-east/)

2. Weaponization of feelings and colonialist rethoric into anti-western propaganda is a cheap and effective way to undermine your enemies. Why wouldn’t they do it?

3. Desperate try to involve others in conflict. What will be next, maybe ants? 🐜

4. They have been actively spreading disinformation globally for well over a decade.

   This is information warfare, at the end of the day. Not even remotely surprising.

5. their accounts are overdue.
   https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12580627

6. They’re at it again

7. Same thing in African states. Same in Asian. Same in USA and even in EU. Jesus F. Christ I don’t need to mention the amount of shit I being proposed to watch by Facebook or Twitter then I open the feed.

8. The Arab world should only trust information from western intelligence and western media companies. When have we ever led them astray?

9. The foreign stashes of Russian cash fund this. That cash was not stashed outside of Russia only due to the corruption of oligarchs. The FSB and SVR have been creating funds abroad for operations like this since the chekist seizure of power in Russia in the late 90’s.