Insidious Information Infection
How To Get Your Friends to Vaccinate Against Russian Influence
FRIEND LINK FOR NON-SUBSCRIBERS and SHARING
I often hear, “Yes, I’ve already tried to talk to my stupid relatives/friends a dozen times, but they still don’t understand me. It’s as if I’m hitting a wall.”
If you’re Ukrainian, you’ve heard this, too, or even found yourself in such a situation. Some people like this exist in every group, in every family, in every office.
Putin’s propaganda has been brainwashing people for what, ten years? Fifty? Three-hundred? As a full-fledged propaganda machine — at least 10 years. Before that, it has come in waves, ebbing and flowing, waxing and waning with the changes in regimes, policies, and criminality in the Kremlin. The current iteration — every day, seven days a week, for eleven years, since just before the invasion in 2014. Below is the Google Trends report for the term “Bandera.” It spikes just as Russia is invading Ukraine — before that, there was no interest, and after that, interest all but disappeared.
