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Mike 03

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4. This is an actual strategy named "Firehose of Falsehoods"

Sat Aug 29, 2020, 08:50 AM

Aug 2020

The article below credits Putin's Russia with developing it, but Goebbels and other autocrats used something similar:

The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model
Why It Might Work and Options to Counter It

Distinctive Features of the Contemporary Model for Russian Propaganda

High-volume and multichannel

Rapid, continuous, and repetitive

Lacks commitment to objective reality

Lacks commitment to consistency.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html

(Rand Corporation)

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The RNC weaponized exhaustion [View all] babylonsister Aug 2020 OP

I see it as all they say and do keeps motivating us, not discouraging us beachbumbob Aug 2020 #1

goddamn these 'people' spanone Aug 2020 #2

This is spot on Cosmocat Aug 2020 #3

This is an actual strategy named "Firehose of Falsehoods" Mike 03 Aug 2020 #4

Straight out of Putin's playbook. secondwind Aug 2020 #5

It's working. RESIST with every exhausted breath!! Guilded Lilly Aug 2020 #6

The chaos, confusion, and Covid are a lot to wade through. kentuck Aug 2020 #7

Sick and tired is not exhaustion. C_U_L8R Aug 2020 #8

Perhaps it's time to fight back with our own avalanche of lying propaganda Wicked Blue Aug 2020 #9

Overwhelmingly Dishonesty Martin Eden Aug 2020 #10