Despite a slight reflux, Moscow’s campaigns do not stay less massive, and coordinated with Beijing.
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Since the invasion of Ukraine, on 24 February, Russia’s disinformation operations on the war have a little refluted after a month of conflict, at the time of Moscow undertook to reorganize his armed forces on field. These information campaigns do not remain less massive, and coordinated with China.
testify to the Hamilton 2.0 Barometer of the GERMAN Marshall Fund of America (GMF) think tank. His latest data show that between the 24th and 30th March the activity of Chinese accounts on Twitter Always perfectly matches the curve of their Russian counterparts on the subject Ukraine , with between 2,000 and 3,500 new messages a day for everyone. NATO is the first keyword broadcast, equal by the actors of the two countries. The background message, reminds the GMF, consists of criticizing the United States and NATO.
On the social network, the Russian Embassy in Peru, that of Mexico, and the account of the Russian RT chain in Spanish, have been the last days the biggest messages in the service of aggression against the ‘Ukraine. In Spanish is the most influential Russian account before those of national RT and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. These transmitters, however, affect a lesser hearing that Russian diplomatic representations in Uganda and South Africa, including likes in tens of thousands.
“Create confusion”
Between the 24th and 30th of March, the main Chinese accounts followed the movement – the most influential being that of the general consul in Belfast, Zhang Meifang, the spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, Lijian Zhao, and television state, CGTN. “Among the tweets connected to Ukraine, the salient story was the criticism of NATO, mostly connected to the anniversary of the beginning of the NATO bombing campaign in Serbia during the Kosovo War,” says the GMF. During this week, “NATO was the third word used in key phrases, and the fourth most used Hashtag in the Tweets of Chinese diplomats and state media, while Serbia was the third most mentioned country. After China and the United States “.
In addition to Ukraine, all the themes of official propaganda, the Cultural Councilor of the Chinese Embassy in Pakistan, Zhang Heqing, is the largest issuer on the social network – with more than 2,000 tweets, He generated 162,000 retweets and 700,000 likes in one week.
“The semantics of Russia resumed by the authoritarian regimes on” the special operation “or the” release of the donbass “begins to be taken over without quotation marks in the press,” said Lutz Güllner, Chief of Communication Strategic at the European External Action Service, at a webinar organized in the European Parliament, Thursday, March 31st. Of the existence of supposed laboratories of American biological weapons to the diversion of images of the pandemic of Covid-19, the purpose of these propagandists is, according to him, “not to oppose a truth against a lie, but of Create confusion. It is a tactic of relativating facts “. Among the measures to respond to it, the service of Mr. Güllner has just published an article on “demystification of seven false statements spread by the Russian side about the invasion of Ukraine”.
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