silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoMisinformation Is Turning American Disasters Into Toxic Battlegrounds | Rumors and conspiracy theories interfered with recovery efforts in North Carolina. It wasn’t a one-off, experts say.www.bloomberg.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down13
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minus-squareSkyrmir@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months agoMisinformation campaigns are modern warfare. Killing your opponents from the inside is far more cost effective.
minus-squareMac@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-22 months agoRemember when the ex-KGB agent said in an interview in the 80s that Russia was practicing ideological subversion in the US to destabilize it from the inside? Huh. Interesting.
minus-squareSkyrmir@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoWas the KGB agent Putin by any chance?
minus-squareCmdrShepard42@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months ago“I’m not only the hair club KGB president… I’m also a member!”
Misinformation campaigns are modern warfare. Killing your opponents from the inside is far more cost effective.
Remember when the ex-KGB agent said in an interview in the 80s that Russia was practicing ideological subversion in the US to destabilize it from the inside?
Huh. Interesting.
Was the KGB agent Putin by any chance?
“I’m not only the
hair clubKGB president… I’m also a member!”Yuri Bezmenov