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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/29054149

Moscow’s disinformation is often shared unwittingly by Canadians who don’t know its origin or purpose. Canada needs to fight it with stronger actions.

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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

and Conservative voters are suckling at the teat of Russian propaganda and preparing to vote against their own self interest and the interests of their children and country.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 8 months ago

I'm not often one for whataboutism but this is focused on Russia to a degree that seems absurd. Sure, their propaganda is dangerous and pervasive, but why should it be so exclusively singled out? What about all the rest of the stuff we're subjected to from around the world? Despite its recent political problems the USA is still for now much more politically respectable than Russia, but that doesn't mean we aren't bombarded with propaganda originating there. Not to mention the Business Council of Canada, the Fraser Institute, the Century Initiative, Pathways Alliance, or the National Post. There are many hazards in this information environment, and we need to be better prepared to handle all of them.

The problem is much larger than Russia. No effort to address it will get far without recognizing that.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] kbal@fedia.io 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, I didn't want to put in the encarta cd

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Flashbacks to grade school where the disc was enclosed in a cartridge inserted into a probably 286 computer.