{"id":103742,"date":"2022-04-21T12:16:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T10:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/?p=103742"},"modified":"2022-04-27T14:42:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:42:06","slug":"trolling-for-a-victory-steeped-in-blood-and-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/trolling-for-a-victory-steeped-in-blood-and-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"Trolling For A Victory Steeped In Blood And Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearing day 50 of the war in Ukraine, the master of the Kremlin remains unabashed. The \u201cspecial operation\u201d, for the rest of the world also known as Russia\u2019s war of aggression against Ukraine, was a good idea and is still going according to plan. Perhaps it is fitting that such\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1436653\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">pronouncements<\/a>\u00a0were made on 12 April, marked in Russia as Cosmonautics day. The war criminal-in-chief seems to be flying a mile high above the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/news\/2022\/04\/ukraine-civilian-casualty-update-12-april-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">scores of civilian casualties<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/03\/all-wars-are-like-this-used-as-a-weapon-of-war-in-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">atrocities<\/a>\u00a0committed by Russian troops invading sovereign Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/euvsdisinfo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103746 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/euvsdisinfo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/euvsdisinfo.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/euvsdisinfo-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/euvsdisinfo-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet, it is not so lonely up in the stratosphere of self-delusion and Orwellian lies. The pro-Kremlin disinformation machine is working around the clock to saturate the aether with its favoured D\u2019s of disinformation \u2013 denial, dismay, distractions, dismissal and distortions. One of the main aims of the Kremlin\u2019s disinformation has been to shift the blame for alleged war crimes committed in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lather, Rinse, Repeat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When a Russian Armed Forces missile strike hit the Kramatorsk railway station on 8 April, killing dozens of innocent people fleeing the horrors of war, Russia quickly turned to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/euvsdisinfo.eu\/report\/ukraine-is-responsible-for-the-tochka-u-missile-attack-on-kramatorsk-railway-station\">accuse Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0of the attack. As if on cue, first came the denials of responsibility, then, unable to sweep this atrocity under the rug, came dismissal and distortion. In this case, it was questioning the missile used for the attack and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/CITeam\/2383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">falsely claiming<\/a>\u00a0that Russia no longer uses the Tochka-U missiles that struck the station. Curiously though, the Russian state-controlled disinformation machine is not watertight. Some of the more eager propagandists had already\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/ichbinilya\/status\/1512370063583686661\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">reported a successful Russian missile strike<\/a>\u00a0against Ukrainian fighters at Kramatorsk station.<\/p>\n<p>When the world learned of the horrendous acts of brutality Russian troops had committed against peaceful civilians in Bucha, the pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets used the same well-rehearsed script. First came the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/euvsdisinfo.eu\/report\/the-west-is-spreading-fakes-about-russian-atrocities-in-bucha\">denials<\/a>\u00a0and claims of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/euvsdisinfo.eu\/report\/kyivs-accusations-of-killings-in-bucha-are-a-provocation\">provocations<\/a>. Then came the shifting blame,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/euvsdisinfo.eu\/report\/those-filmed-in-bucha-were-killed-by-ukrainian-nazis\">accusing Ukraine<\/a>. When the images of the helpless inhabitants of Bucha summarily executed on the streets became seared into the eyes of the world, the truth could no longer be denied. So the Russian disinformation machine turned again to deflect attention. In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/euvsdisinfo.eu\/report\/the-images-of-dead-bodies-in-bucha-may-be-a-diversion-of-attention-from-us-biolabs-in-ukraine\">some cases<\/a>, they tried to connect Bucha with the notorious\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/euvsdisinfo.eu\/biological-weapons-are-banned-biological-research-is-not\/\">disinformation narrative on biolabs<\/a>. In others, engaged in historic relativism, they\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/euvsdisinfo.eu\/the-bucha-massacre-how-to-deflect-attention-in-poland\/\">compared Bucha with the Volyn massacre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, these are just the more headline-grabbing examples, but the Kremlin\u2019s cycle of death and lies spins along a similar path regardless of the topic it seeks to distort. It may be decrying the razing and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1432857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">atrocities in Borodianka as fakes<\/a>, or even making outrageous statements\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/politics\/short_news\/bih-genocide-survivors-slam-russian-spokespersons-srebrenica-statements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">implying the Srebrenica genocide was staged<\/a>. But the pattern of denial, accusations, shifting blame, and distraction keeps on repeating.<\/p>\n<p>So it is not at all surprising that the pro-Kremlin disinformation ecosystem has started to employ the same approach to push a<a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20220412\/evropa-1783007263.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0false narrative on food security<\/a>. The Western sanctions against Russia are designed to ramp up economic pressure on the Kremlin and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/IP_22_2332\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">cripple its ability to finance its invasion of Ukraine<\/a>, not to disrupt food production. Let\u2019s be clear, global food security is seriously threatened by Russia\u2019s decision to invade Ukraine. Yet, the Russian propagandists shamelessly accuse the West of\u00a0<a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"https:\/\/topwar.ru\/194099-posevnaja-pod-ugrozoj-ukraina-i-strany-zapada-provocirujut-mirovoj-golod.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">provoking world hunger<\/a>\u00a0or \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/vz.ru\/economy\/2022\/3\/23\/1149890.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">weaponising food<\/a>\u201d. These claims are as cynical as they are baseless, but the cogs in the Kremlin\u2019s cycle of lies have never been too concerned with facts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 99.9988%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: double; border-color: #001f7d;\" cellpadding=\"0,5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/disinformation-the-harder-you-push-the-harder-they-resist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Putin-Zelensky-wresting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"93\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/disinformation-the-harder-you-push-the-harder-they-resist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disinformation: The harder you push, the harder they resist<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roll Out the Bots<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is plenty of work for the Kremlin\u2019s propagandists obfuscating the truth. Evidently, so much so that the pro-Kremlin disinformation machine rolled out a coordinated campaign of cyber trolling. It started out as an effort to deny and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/euvsdisinfo.eu\/the-bucha-massacre-how-to-deflect-attention-in-poland\/\">distract from Russia\u2019s war crimes in Bucha<\/a>, e.g., via a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.o2.pl\/informacje\/atak-trolli-na-polskich-politykow-za-ukraine-ludzie-to-interes-polski-6754978230418016a?fbclid=IwAR2mSpUKo0XgK50BfbLoFuSkWlImri6edeo6GLIQJgd6wXB-u74amAjP5O4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">coordinated email<\/a>\u00a0trolling Polish officials, and quickly turned to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/cyber_frontZ\/1071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">calls for trolling social media profiles<\/a>\u00a0of prominent western leaders. Notably, the Kremlin\u2019s chief propagandist, Vladimir Solovyov, used his sizeable\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/SolovievLive\/98802\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Telegram channel<\/a>\u00a0to coordinate this troll activity. Likewise, the Telegram channel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/cyber_frontZ\/982\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Cyber Front Z<\/a>, reportedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fontanka.ru\/2022\/03\/21\/70522490\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">linked<\/a>\u00a0to oligarch Yevgeni Prigozhin\u2019s \u201ctroll farm\u201d in St. Petersburg, called to flood the information space with false accusations of war crimes allegedly committed by Ukrainian \u201cneo-Nazis\u201d, in order to drown the pro-Ukrainian voices in a sea of lies.<\/p>\n<p>While to pro-Kremlin trolls and bots seek to muddy the media environment and skew the public discourse on Putin\u2019s war in Ukraine, the free and independent media space, as well as public access to reliable information in Russia, is shrinking by the day. The latest target for the Kremlin\u2019s censorship has been the world-renowned repository of knowledge and information, Wikipedia.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rkn.gov.ru\/news\/rsoc\/news74240.htm?utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=t.co&amp;utm_referrer=t.co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">According to<\/a>\u00a0Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor, the site has become \u201ca new line of constant attacks on Russians\u201d, while Russia\u2019s favoured comrade-in-crime Belarus has been detaining and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/odr\/belarus-arrest-wikipedia-editors-russian-invasion-of-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">coercing Russian-language Wikipedia editors<\/a>\u00a0operating in Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>This, of course, is a consequence to the long-curated pro-Kremlin narrative of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/euvsdisinfo.eu\/disinformation-cases\/?disinfo_keywords%5B%5D=keyword_77113&amp;date=&amp;per_page=\">\u201cRussophobia\u201d spreading in the West<\/a>. Yet, the Russian people clearly value Wikipedia, as the downloads of local copies of Wikipedia in Russia have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2022\/03\/russia-wikipedia-download-kiwix.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">increased by more than 4,000 per cent<\/a>\u00a0since Russia launched the war against Ukraine on 24 February 2022. In addition,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.levada.ru\/2022\/04\/08\/internet-sotsialnye-seti-i-vpn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">according to a recent Levada poll<\/a>, almost one third of Russian internet users now use VPN services to access content restricted in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the increasingly repressive Kremlin regime continues to clamp down on any real or perceived dissent and opposition. It has moved to shut down such prominent human rights organisations as Amnesty and Human Rights Watch,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2022\/04\/08\/moscow-shutting-down-amnesty-human-rights-watch-in-russia-a77290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">among others<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/russia-kara-murza-arrested\/31798286.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">detained the opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza<\/a>, once a close associate of slain opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. And not even those who until recently enjoying the blessings of the inner circle as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kamilkazani\/status\/1513681957749596162\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Vladislav Sukrov<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/russia-fsbs-beseda-in-prison-after-ukraine-intel-failings-soldatov-2022-4?r=US&amp;IR=T\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Sergei Beseda<\/a>\u00a0once did, are now spared the wrath of the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 99.9988%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: double; border-color: #001f7d;\" cellpadding=\"0,5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/putin-the-new-tamer-of-neo-nazism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Putin-Nazi-row-of-soldiers--768x432.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/putin-the-new-tamer-of-neo-nazism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Putin: The new tamer of neo-Nazism?<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If the history of totalitarianism has taught us anything, it may only be a matter of time before the pro-Kremlin disinformation machine is brought to bear against the hordes of trolls now galvanised to support it behind a single letter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information: <a href=\"https:\/\/euvsdisinfo.eu\/trolling-for-a-victory-steeped-in-blood-and-hunger\/\">EUvsDiSiNFO &#8211; Press release<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearing day 50 of the war in Ukraine, the master of the Kremlin remains unabashed. The \u201cspecial operation\u201d, for the rest of the world also known as Russia\u2019s war of aggression against Ukraine, was a good idea and is still going according to plan. Perhaps it is fitting that such\u00a0pronouncements\u00a0were made on 12 April, marked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101011,"featured_media":103746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4075,346,4078],"tags":[5446,779,2853,5005],"class_list":{"0":"post-103742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-defence-security","8":"category-eu-news","9":"category-internat-safety-pol","10":"tag-disinfo","11":"tag-eu-en","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trolling For A Victory Steeped In Blood And Hunger | CDE Almer\u00eda - Centro de Documentaci\u00f3n Europea - Universidad de Almer\u00eda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/trolling-for-a-victory-steeped-in-blood-and-hunger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trolling For A Victory Steeped In Blood And Hunger | CDE Almer\u00eda - Centro de Documentaci\u00f3n Europea - Universidad de Almer\u00eda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nearing day 50 of the war in Ukraine, the master of the Kremlin remains unabashed. 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