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🇺🇦 Mind Control — Why Millions Think Russia is Winning


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Those in the West would be forgiven for thinking Ukraine is winning the information war, with slick videos of President Zelenskyy appearing all over social media. However for those in the Global South, the content they consume about the war is much more pro-Russia.

To explain this phenomenon and the wider context, Carl Miller, Research Director at the Demos Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, joins Arthur Snell for another War Bulletin.

We're putting out irregular war bulletins covering different aspects of the Ukraine crisis. You can support our work on the crowdfunding app Patreon: doomsdaywatch.co.uk

Resources to help the Ukrainian people can be found here: https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/

  •  “Wrenching heartbreak for Ukraine is completely unbroken on my social media feeds.”
  •  ”Russia and China have tried to meddle in open information spaces to manipulate the world's view of them.”
  •  “You only have to Google ’buy retweets‘ to see how readily available these services are. It's not expensive for states to run these campaigns.”
  •  ”We need widen the array of responses to this tradecraft, beyond platform takedown, digital literacy campaigns and journalistic exposĂŠ.”
  •  ”Western governments need to support ways for Russian citizens to access information that already exists. Let them use Wikipedia.”

  • DOOMSDAY WATCH was written and presented by Arthur Snell, and produced by Robin Leeburn with Jacob Archbold. Theme tune and original music by Paul Hartnoll. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. DOOMSDAY WATCH is a Podmasters production

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