Pro-Russia online operatives falsely claimed Zelensky committed suicide in an effort to sway public

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Source: CNN

Full Headline: Pro-Russia online operatives falsely claimed Zelensky committed suicide in an effort to sway public opinion, cybersecurity firm says



Pro-Russia online operatives falsely claimed weeks into Moscow's war against Ukraine that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had committed suicide, as part of an aggressive effort to dent public morale and undermine the Ukrainian government, US cybersecurity firm Mandiant said Thursday.

The false Zelensky suicide claim is just one of several information operations tracked by Mandiant from suspected Russian and Belarusian actors that were aimed at deceiving audiences in Ukraine, Russia and elsewhere in Europe -- or at least muddling the truth about the brutal war.

The influence campaigns, analysts say, underscore how the Kremlin is committed as ever to information warfare and efforts to shape perceptions of the conflict even as its soldiers suffer heavy losses on the battlefield.

In another case, Belarus-linked operatives falsely asserted that a Polish crime ring was harvesting the organs of Ukrainian refugees, with the complicity of Polish officials.



Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/19/politics/pro-russia-disinformation-report/index.html

[SpankMe]

1. Disinformation - Republican style. n/t

[turbinetree]

2. And Putin his terrorist and a murderer....

the world has seen the videos'.....

[Warpy]

3. Operator Starsky ran down the list of propaganda in his May 9 video

and it looks like his list is accurate. Anyone who remembers the babies tossed out of their incubators onto the cold floor in Kuwait will recognize that this is a very old trick. Oh, and don't forget those WMDs that Hans Blix said were destroyed but every Republican was absolutely certain were there. Or that Asia could be reduced to a set of dominoes.

And after the war, when the dead are undercounted and buried as quietly as possible, no one can ever remember the lies.

Here's the video, along with a lot of drunks who don't know what the day is really about:

[2naSalit]

4. No low is too low.

Astounding and infuriating.

I guess we're in the next phase of the shock doctrine.