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We all know that Mr. Putin's propaganda machine seeks to influence Western nations through social media and other means.

Since the attempted assassinations by nerve gas, I have seen huge amounts of obfuscation and denial on social media. It even exceeds the tidal wave they generated after Russian forces shot down that passenger jet over Ukraine.
 
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Start looking for reds under the beds again I suppose, the UK has a lot of problems with the EU related social fallout from mass immigration, the threat of terrorism , austerity and low wages but to my knowledge none of these problems are due to Putin.
Historically any threat to the UK has come from W.Europe and not Russia.
 
vinty said:
reds under the beds
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Russia is now run by gangsters under the partial control of a corrupt dictator. Although Vlad was a dedicated communist when he was a KGB man, he is more a power-obsessed nationalist now.

Weakening the West and the unity of Europe is a patriotic aim of his empire. The weaker and more disunited the West, the more opportunities for his empire to prosper and expand.
 
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It's good news that attempts are being made to crack down on propaganda spreading fake news.

Too late for our Red Bus, but let's hope that others don't suffer the same sort of deliberate lies.

https://www.ft.com/content/dbc722b0-3407-11e8-ae84-494103e73f7f


"Brussels is preparing to crack down on social media companies who have been accused of spreading “fake news”, issuing a stark warning that scandals such as the Facebook data leak threaten to “subvert our democratic systems”.

The European Commission fears that next year’s elections to the European Parliament are vulnerable to mass eurosceptic online “disinformation”. Its concern sharpened after a whistleblower alleged that Cambridge Analytica gathered personal information from up to 50m Facebook users and used it to target voters in the US presidential election. Cambridge Analytica has denied using Facebook data in its modelling. Julian King, European commissioner for security, is demanding a “clear game plan” for how social media companies can operate during sensitive election periods — starting with European Parliament polls in May 2019.A letter from Sir Julian to Mariya Gabriel, commissioner for the digital economy, calls for more transparency on the internal algorithms that internet platforms use to promote stories, limits on the “harvesting” of personal information for political purposes, and disclosure by tech companies of who funds “sponsored content” on their websites. Sir Julian proposes a “more binding approach” than self-regulation, including “clearly and carefully defined performance indicators”. His proposals have backing from the other commissioners who are drawing up the EU’s first policy on how to fight “online disinformation” to be published later this month.

Vinty may not agree.
 
JohnD said:
It's good news that attempts are being made to crack down on propaganda spreading fake news.

Too late for our Red Bus, but let's hope that others don't suffer the same sort of deliberate lies.

https://www.ft.com/content/dbc722b0-3407-11e8-ae84-494103e73f7f


"Brussels is preparing to crack down on social media companies who have been accused of spreading “fake news”, issuing a stark warning that scandals such as the Facebook data leak threaten to “subvert our democratic systems”.

The European Commission fears that next year’s elections to the European Parliament are vulnerable to mass eurosceptic online “disinformation”. Its concern sharpened after a whistleblower alleged that Cambridge Analytica gathered personal information from up to 50m Facebook users and used it to target voters in the US presidential election. Cambridge Analytica has denied using Facebook data in its modelling. Julian King, European commissioner for security, is demanding a “clear game plan” for how social media companies can operate during sensitive election periods — starting with European Parliament polls in May 2019.A letter from Sir Julian to Mariya Gabriel, commissioner for the digital economy, calls for more transparency on the internal algorithms that internet platforms use to promote stories, limits on the “harvesting” of personal information for political purposes, and disclosure by tech companies of who funds “sponsored content” on their websites. Sir Julian proposes a “more binding approach” than self-regulation, including “clearly and carefully defined performance indicators”. His proposals have backing from the other commissioners who are drawing up the EU’s first policy on how to fight “online disinformation” to be published later this month.

Vinty may not agree.
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When was there never fake news, England used to have an ancient law against the speading of what was called "false news" basically it was brought in to protect the King and his establishment from rumours about their behaviour from the peasantry.
Anyone overheard in the local tavern saying anything less than complimentary about the King could be arrested and charged with spreading false news, they didn't have the internet in them days did they
Ordinary people aren't as stupid as you seem to think,the old adage of '' don't believe everything you read in the newspapers' should be updated to don't believe everything you read on Facebook.
 
Or dont believe anything on facebook :)

Everything written in the daily mail is always correct of course.
 
JohnD said:
Russia is now run by gangsters under the partial control of a corrupt dictator. Although Vlad was a dedicated communist when he was a KGB man, he is more a power-obsessed nationalist now.

Weakening the West and the unity of Europe is a patriotic aim of his empire. The weaker and more disunited the West, the more opportunities for his empire to prosper and expand.
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You have been watching to many James Bond movies, where is this Russian empire and where is the evidence that it wants to expand into Western Europe, on the contrary it has always been the Europeans who have harboured ambitions about expanding East, it wasn't Just Hitler who said he wanted Europe to expand into the East, David Cameron said he would like to see the EU expand into the Urals.
 
vinty has his own perspective

vinty said:
Better a Soviet empire than a Nazi one, the Russians had legitimate reasons for occupying Ukraine, pro Nazi sentiment is still strong amongst Ukrainian Nationalists, Nazi backed Ukrainian Nationalists waged genocide against ethnic Russians and Jews in WW2 , who's to say the same thing couldn't happen again.
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JohnD said:
vinty has his own perspective
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My perspective is that I look at both sides of an argument, I will watch BBC news and sometimes I will watch RT or Sky all these stations have their own agenda's, so they slant their coverage to accommodate their agenda's the same applies to newspapers.
 
Roger928 said:
The opposite to that is closer to the truth.
Labour and spend, spend, spend policies.
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You live your lie.

Landlords now putting ads for letting rooms in exchange for sex. School children poverty, police not responding to crimes.

To top it off read about the secret barrister and the legal system on its knees. Social care in tatters.

All for what? Your hatred and anger for your fellow citizen has consumed you.

The UK should be a beacon to other nations on how it conducts it's affairs.
 
Kankerot said:
You live your lie.

Landlords now putting ads for letting rooms in exchange for sex. School children poverty, police not responding to crimes.

To top it off read about the secret barrister and the legal system on its knees. Social care in tatters.

All for what? Your hatred and anger for your fellow citizen has consumed you.

The UK should be a beacon to other nations on how it conducts it's affairs.
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Arzehole.
Your beloved labour has destroyed the country.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-451278/Blairs-legacy-10-years-ruined-Britain.html

As a society, despite all this cash, today we find ourselves troubled, divided, at a loss for purposes and values, profoundly dissatisfied.

Couldn't have said it better myself.
 
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