#Russia troll coordination portals post jobs to spam #Ukraine and #Poland Telegram channels with incendiary and divisive news like “Polish protesters do X to Ukrainian passenger buses”
First such stories, including Ukrainian-language memes conveniently provided by the above, start popping up on Ukrainian channels
Ukrainian minister Oleksandr Kubrakov posts one such story on his Twitter providing, gaining hundreds of likes, shares, Ukrainian media pick up the story etc.^1
Polish police was shortly asked about it and sounded rather surprised, saying “no such things are happening on the border now”.^2
Two years into the war, in spite of numerous prior warnings that Russians are unrolling an active campaign of fakes targeted at sowing divisions between Poland and Ukraine, a minister of one of these countries shares the fake.
Meanwhile, some Ukrainian company posted a huge “Poland first to help” next to the main road from the border to Lviv.
@kravietz
🤦♀️ These active campaigns seem to be in all countries, sowing divisions and spreading anger as if a highly contagious disease. So how do we vaccinate people with the truth? Perhaps daily reminders identifying the behaviors and practices that keep recurring, only with different names and places? Showing that it’s always the same plot? How can this vaccine be distributed?
@lindamarie@kravietz - during WW2 such "news" would not be published: the news agencies would know to check things first, but also even if they were true they would be censored to keep the focus on the real enemy. How many people know about the battle of Brisbane in 1942?
Meanwhile, the SocraticEthics account representing Ukraine is calling for boycott of all Polish agriculture, not serving Polish customers and suspension of rights of Poland in the EU (article 7).
There was even advance warning that russia’s massive ability to disrupt and divide was being fed additional billions💵, and would be intensifying over the coming weeks, particularly March through May. But even right there close to Mordor, even with warnings, the orcs are still able to activate their minions on multiple fronts and gum up the works. That’s what I find so disturbing. It’s the same thing here with angry, red hat wearers, acting against their own interests.
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