Disinformation and fake accounts were used against the west for years – now the Kremlin is under attack
Photograph: Nicolo Vincenzo Malvestuto/Sopa Images/Rex/ShutterstockPhotograph: Nicolo Vincenzo Malvestuto/Sopa Images/Rex/ShutterstockOne of the wildest aspects of the first Great Information War is not just that you can follow Russia’s invasion ofBecause in 2022, information is power. And one of the many huge unexpected geopolitical shifts of the last week is that this power has been returned to the people.
Anything can and may happen. But having dominated the dark arts of disinformation for the last eight years, the Kremlin’s invincible mastery of the information space has been exposed as a sham, a fiction, another lie. Putin has put on the equivalent of a pair of bell-bottoms and is dad-dancing across the internet. Meanwhile Ukrainian presidentisn’t just commanding his armed forces: he’s commanding TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Telegram.
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