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Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Russian "information troops" were involved in "intelligent, effective propaganda", but he did not reveal details about the team or its targets.
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Keir Giles, an expert on the Russian military at the Chatham House think-tank, has warned that Russian "information warfare" occupies a wider sphere than the current Western focus on "cyber warriors" and hackers.
"The aim is to control information in whatever form it takes," he wrote in a Nato report called "The Next Phase of Russian Information Warfare". Link.
The report states the sphere of influence goes beyond targeting NATO and individual NATO soldiers and I suspect a far wider range of targets including this ominous line: "Instead, it has as one aim undermining the notion of objective truth and reporting being possible at all."
I believe that war on truth is being waged and won in the US with the rise of the new "alt-fact" movement, but here on European soil - how successful do we think this Russian action will be?