Russia waging information war against Sweden, study finds
Source: The Guardian
Swedens most authoritative foreign policy institute has accused Russia of using fake news, false documents and disinformation as part of a coordinated campaign to influence public opinion and decision-making in the Scandinavian country.
The Swedish Institute of International Affairs said in a comprehensive study that Sweden had been the target of a wide array of active measures aimed at hampering its ability to generate public support in pursuing its policies.
The study said Russia had used misleading reports on its state-run news website Sputnik, and public interventions by Russian politicians in Swedish domestic affairs, as well as more covert methods.
These included forged documents and fabricated news items that appeared in Swedish media and were subsequently picked up by Sputnik and other sources of Russian public diplomacy and broadcast to an international audience, it said.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/11/russia-waging-information-war-in-sweden-study-finds
orwell
(7,773 posts)...win a war without firing a shot.
Make Russia great again...
suffragette
(12,232 posts)expat_1
(2 posts)This Swedish claim is very much more credible than what CNN is saying, which makes it very much likely that the report on Russian attempts to influence the US elections is true, in fact if this is what they are doing to Sweden, Their efforts towards the US must have been on a 10 fold scale more.
Tactical Peek
(1,209 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)that the west conceived of the internet to coordinate nuclear attacks (darpa and the French version whose name I forget at the moment), and now Russia is using the internet to wage a war on the west. I wonder if any of the original inventors are shaking their heads.
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Pholus
(4,062 posts)Russia is the fakest country on the planet. No wonder they are so good at creating fake news. They've had so much practice having to cover up generations of such pathetic failures, of course they've left reality behind.