Disinformation Review: Issue Eleven
As this week's trend we chose the disinformation targeted at Germany
Pro-Kremlin media use the news about sexual attacks during New Year's Eve to support one of their most repeated narratives - showing the decay of the West and the problems faced by a European leader.
Already last week, we saw disinformation about German police and Angela Merkel allegedly not reacting to the incident (http://eepurl.com/bMAv5P). This week, you will see stories about these attacks being staged by secret services, eg the CIA or their Muslim allies; and paying the "actors" with heroin bought for taxpayers' money. One of Russia's main news programmes, "Vesti" compared the incident to the infamous Night of Long Knives, or Kristallnacht (http://bit.ly/1QfuCZE). Aeronet.ct reported that if you insult refugees on German Facebook or Twitter, you might go to jail, which is a long prepared plan to ban freedom of speech; and the New Year's Eve incidents are only an excuse for that (http://bit.ly/1OYZQDk).
During the weekend, the pro-Kremlin media came with a story claiming that a Russian girl had been raped in Berlin by migrants. In the table, you will see many links to this story in all the most popular Russian media. Although Berlin police denied this information (http://bit.ly/1Q8DMW4), many of the stories remained unchanged.
Further disinformation about German authorities was reported by Czech pro-Kremlin outlets. In the table, you will see a couple of them claiming that the German government buys Czech prostitutes to satisfy the refugees. These prostitutes then spread the refugees' sexual diseases among the Czech population, which might, it is claimed, be a revenge for the Czech government's unwillingness to accept refugees by the German government and Angela Merkel.
Last week, we showed how pro-Kremlin media invent stories written by well-known Western media to make their reporting more credible. All of the stories were faked. This week, we saw a similar pattern - many stories in pro-Kremlin outlets claimed that Western media presage a catastrophe for the whole West after another "ingenious" move by Vladimir Putin, intended to counter the sanctions against his country. In fact, these "Western media" amounted to one article on a blogging site. The stop-faking site Noodleremover reports on this particular case more thoroughly (http://bit.ly/1niqi0M).
Here, we see a different pattern - instead of making "proofs" up, pro-Kremlin sites pick an existing element, and pervert it into something it is not. The very same happened to a photograph that allegedly depicted Ukrainian nazis. In fact, there were Russian ultranationalists portrayed in the picture (http://bit.ly/1StZoiM).
The false narrative about nazis governing Ukraine is repeated on every occasion. Thus, even the Ukrainian school reform's aim is in fact just a plan how to turn Ukrainian children to nazis. This piece of "investigation" was reported by novorus.info: http://bit.ly/1V54xvH, and than spread by Czech pro-Kremlin outlets.
This week, pro-Kremlin outlets also claim that the American secret service managed not only to stage the Cologne attacks (see above), but also to help the Bulgarian Prime Minister to get drugs in Libya and weapons to ISIS (http://bit.ly/1TAAonG). In 2009, the CIA also killed Michael Jackson (http://bit.ly/1RONPDe).
Many thanks to all our contributors again, and we are always looking for new ones.
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