How Russia Shapes What the World Thinks
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Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's missing. We don't know where she is. It's possible the Russians have her. At the very least, it's quite possible the Russians have misled her in some way or another, and maybe they tricked her into leaving when it was time to record.
You cheeky boy. Don't worry, everybody. Jerry's just really on vacation. But that was a very clever setup to this episode on essentially on Russian propaganda and how, you know, I think we all knew that like their propaganda machine was big back in the Cold War and stuff, obviously. But it's a really big problem now and has been for a while ever since the advent of the Internet and especially social media.
Yeah, because those two things are wide open, set up for people to distribute misinformation, deliberate misinformation. The Russians are far from the only ones that do it. They're just really, really good at it. And they've been doing it for a long time. I would guess they were probably the first country to really start doing this on, like, a wide scale. But, I mean, as far back, I think, as 2010? Or at least the 2000—yeah, like, the 2010s at least. 2013, at the absolute latest, the Internet Research Agency was the first kind of famous one that surfaced. And the whole premise back then and now is to basically game social media and use whatever you can, whatever like weaknesses it has in like the entire structure of it to confuse people, to sow discord and disinformation and chaos and questioning what reality is.
Getting the media to start using words like post-truth and stuff like that. That kind of stuff, it might not have a specific aim where it's like we want to, say, get Trump elected. That was part of this too. Like that was a Russian name as well. Or we want to stir America up over the border crisis. Just creating a climate where people question what's real or what's true That in and of itself is a huge triumph for these Russian operations that have been going on for more than a decade.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–7:23
2
How did Russian online propaganda evolve into the Internet Research Agency (IRA)?
7:23–14:05
3
What is the 'firehose of falsehood' strategy Russia uses on social media?
14:05–50:34
4
What was Operation Doppelganger and how did it clone legitimate news sites?
50:34–53:04