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On October 29th, the New York Times published an article titled “‘A New Message’: Russia Trains Its Propaganda Machine on Africa,” focused on Russia’s alleged Russian propaganda campaign in Africa.
“Russia has been playing for power in Africa in recent years by sending arms, offering mercenaries, and cinching mining deals. More quietly, it has started to set up a low-profile infrastructure of political influence that bears echoes of the Kremlin’s strategy in Europe and the United States. And it is already identifying African politicians and activists who will carry its message.”
In the article, NYT presents Jose Matemulane who studied in Saint Petersburg about 20 years ago, and has established a think tank called Afric “which describes itself on its website as “funded by donors with a common passion to foster Africa’s development,” without mentioning Russia.”
Naturally, part of this are RT and Sputnik, who are funded by the Russian state, and that’s never been a secret. They are to organize courses on social media for African journalists, and they will be organized in Moscow, Russia.
“We understand that getting to Moscow costs quite a bit of money, and this may well be too expensive for African newsrooms,” Alexei Volin, Russia’s deputy minister for communications and mass media, added after making the pitch. “We are ready to consider possibilities for RT and Sputnik specialists to organize courses on the ground in this or that African country.”
Of course, no Russian hysteria takes place in Africa, without mentioning Yevgeny Prigozhin, as he is “Putin’s chef” and carries all sorts of “evil deeds” all across the world, but mostly in the African region.
“Perhaps the most prominent figure in Russia’s Africa push is Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the St. Petersburg businessman indicted by the United States for running the online “troll farm” that sought to sway the 2016 American presidential election, who is said to run a military contractor called Wagner that is involved in several African countries.
Another is Konstantin Malofeev, a nationalist banker under American sanctions who has cultivated ties with far-right politicians in Europe and the United States, as well as pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.”
Prigozhin, of course, wasn’t present at all at the Russia-Africa summit that took place on October 23-24th, but Malofeev was there. He was advertising a new project: an agency promising to help African governments gain access to financing as an alternative to Western sources like the International Monetary Fund.
Malofeev described the organization, called the International Agency for Sovereign Development, as an economic approach to the ideological battle he’s been fighting for a long time: breaking the Western world order.
“I oppose liberal totalitarianism. I’m against the global dominance of the Federal Reserve System,” Malofeev said in an interview.
The abovementioned Afric think tank, then is allegedly funded by Prigozhin, but it denies the allegation.
Essentially, the entire NYT article claims that Russia is undertaking in a massive propaganda campaign, by simply saying that the Western system is ineffective, which it clearly is, as African leaders themselves say it is so.
Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, the foreign minister of Djibouti, ticked off countries that he said suffered as a result of misguided Western policies — Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon.
“Why shouldn’t we try a new approach? A new message?” Mr. Youssouf said. “Maybe Russia is the alternative.”
One day after the NYT published its piece, Facebook undertook its own steps: it banned three networks allegedly tied to Russia, who attempted to interfere in the domestic politics of African countries.
“Today, we removed 35 Facebook accounts, 53 Pages, seven Groups and five Instagram accounts that originated in Russia and focused on Madagascar, the Central African Republic, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon.”
Separately, ones focused on Sudan were also removed:
“We also removed 17 Facebook accounts, 18 Pages, 3 Groups and six Instagram accounts that originated in Russia and focused primarily on Sudan.”
Finally, accounts focused on Libya were also suspended:
“Finally, we removed a network of 14 Facebook accounts, 12 Pages, one Group and one Instagram account that originated in Russia and focused on Libya.”
All of these networks were allegedly connected to Yevgeny Prigozhin. Prigozhin and lawyers representing him did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the latest Facebook accusations. He had denied any allegations former and current.
“There’s sort of a joining of forces, if you will, between local actors and actors from Russia. It appears that the local actors who are involved know who is behind the operation,” Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cyber security policy told Reuters.
Facebook declined to identify which local people or organisations had worked with the accounts or which companies it had connected to the activity and Prigozhin.
But researchers at Stanford University, who worked with Facebook on its investigation, said the companies included the “mythical” Wagner Group.
At the same time, Israeli social media trolls appear to be allowed to do whatever they please on the social media platform.
On October 9th, Facebook deleted the page of the popular Palestinian news website, the Palestinian Information Center (PIC). It had nearly 5 million followers, and it was quite popular, and too effective.
According to a document obtained by the Electronic Intifada, the Israeli government has funded a “global influence campaign” with a massive budget with the sole aim of inluencing foreign publics and combating the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS).
In September 2016, the Israeli government announced its willingness to work with Facebook to “tackle incitement.”
The social media giant obliged even if that meant violating the very basic freedom of expression it has repeatedly vowed to respect.
An agreement was reached on how to tackle the “issue.” The agreement was the outcome of two days of discussions involving the Israeli interior minister, Gilad Erdan, and justice minister, Ayelet Shaked, among others.
Erdan’s office said in a statement that, “they agreed with Facebook representatives to create teams that would figure out how best to monitor and remove inflammatory content.”
As per the ZComm article, the process of targeting Palestinians and their supporters follows this logic:
- Pro-Israel trolls fan out, monitoring and commenting on Palestinian posts.
- The trolls report allegedly offensive individuals and content to the Facebook/Israeli “team”.
- Facebook carries out recommendations regarding accounts that have been flagged for censorship.
- The accounts of Palestinian and pro-Palestinian pages and individuals are deleted or banned.
And this appears to be happening, and it is quite similar to the censorship against Russia, Iran and others, which simply doesn’t fit with the US-led narrative.
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You have to start attacking this problem by getting rid of the worst offenders first and the whole world knows that’s Russia .
Fuck you liar! Your just part of the totalitarian machine, helping to acheive full spectrum dominance.
All you can muster is full goat rectum dominance!
How are you fruit loop .
Wet and cold, how about you goat fucker?
Hey are you special needs employee at mossad, because your job is tailored made for supporting employment for retards in Israel solomon kupek.
Just when you think you’ve read all the funniest things in the world, then suddenly this comment appears in front of you … Xaxaxa :D
We can discuss who did more evil but only after we place Israel on the first place. No one has clean hands you know.
For Russia it might be parts of Africa and Afghanistan where atrocities were committed and Russia can be judged by that but on the other side we have much worse offenders. For example Israel, or better said ”the Zionist movement” – they have been doing colonial torture of native Palestinian people for over century. USA had numerous wars behind it, much of which were made out of pure greed and also because of Israeli lobbyists.
I would argue that maybe it’s only China and Iran who did not attack others and were always defending their territory and people in their wars. If you want to preach about morality Mr.Toronto – you’d better look far behind the narrative because no one is in position to preach but everyone has a chance to act better. Russia did a lot to help Syria and recent political decisions were indeed made to stabilize the Middle East for example. The way that US and allies are acting is what gave Russia chance to win over many hearts, mine included.
There is your example of Israeli propaganda, the rat solomon kupek with his fake canuck character.
first you need to get rid of black face Truedeau and stop him from bleeding your tax money for social worriers/lesbian dance theories/ non binary gender none sense before you can talk about other countries
Fuck facebook, im glad i saw it for what it was, havent touched it since 2013.
As for me, I never was registered there. :)
That is natural, isn’t it? :D
Ah…. propaganda, well, apart from been there since the dawn of man, its not something new, not at all, and whom the f…. cares about FeaceBook, run by SuckerBerg, that alone is an mistery, because I never do, why do we care, stop that, because they are irrelevant and beside, to late, they lost it and now have to corrupt everything to get their lies thru, what others need to do is to continue with writing what you do, there is an reason for their attacks, and again I never debate HasbaRats, aka Unit 8200, the various western packs of sewage scums, like the British, the French, the Germans, Norwegians are everywhere usually as Friends of ISISrael etc, etc, but their main problem is, they are loosing, this is the last straws to go thru FeaseBook, witch is getting more and more irrelevant by the day.
The next thing is, why I dont bother to waist time on creeps like this so called Canuck Tonto, is that they are from the brigade of one liners, cocky and stupid, and always copyes others since they cant defend the facts, de facto, de jure, things they never have, and never will get, this, SFront is why you are one of their worst evemy, they simply cant fight facts, other then drown it in pety driplets of manure, to verbal diarea, witch is more telling about them than to be consdiered as an uh… threat. I have been fighting them for years, long before they got to where the level is to day, where the MSM is cencuring everyone that dont fitt into their agenda, and stil they are loosing, and its because they cant fight facts, and like the Trumptards, whom is trying to justify the Oil stealing, from an nation witch they have attacked, faked and lied about reasons and the cause, ripped thru shreads by the real alterntive ones, not the fake right etc, like AfD and so on, Syriza styled rat packs witch I have nothing but pure contemt against, and stealing the resources after bombing the respective nations back to the stone age, its called Shutzpah, and to then where on/in earth do they have any justification for doing that, nowhere, but when you own the MSM and do whatever you please, and we cant do jack shit about it apart from fighting thru the real alternative media, and we have just one real power, we dont need to lie, the HarsbaRats cant do anything than lie, or divert the debate etc where they make people angry is one of their primary goals. To lead the debate, since but de facto and de jure is out of the question. Do you get it.
Then, we have RT etc aka Russian sites, suported by the Russian Gov, witch is the same as in Norway where the Gov hands out whats defined as Press Suport, millions, to regional to national sice MSMs and of course you get what you/they pay for, where the difference is not that big, since Russia isnt always that eager to debate previous Gov and history, like the Norwegians witch scams like the Sami, an demographical flat out lie, like again the Joohos as Semits, and then we have the revolution, the Bolsewiks, etc, and then the Russians goes bananas, to as in Norway, the largest difference is on what, and in Norway they are infested and run by the MSM, witch is owned by the Tribe, one family owns everything in Sweden, the Boniers/ArsleBerg, yeah, and they crush anyone whom are against the present PC-infestation on basicaly everything, while the RT can be more factual, but have the basic problem, owned and run by the people of the Tribe, and it starts to stink, increasingly, pity, you had my respect, not any more.
The rest, like this nonsense about Africa is more like, so f…. what, the west have done this for centurys, have had hegmony on everything, covered imperialism for centurys, and now when its faling, they attack the oposittion, like Russia, in this Russia is doing the right thing, and also China, dont be naive, its after all, bizzenizze, but by consent, not by cannons, this makes the Africans more independent but also to take the responcebility of their own future, ignorance isnt a bliss, but I know Africa is rising, it, like China have been kept under the western thumbs, so all in all, why on earth do you care what western MSM or polticians say, when what they do never the less exposes what they de facto are, scums, look to Libya and Mali, and that was because of France, yup, Its not even an challange to counter the manure coming from scums lie this Toronto shit head. Dont waist time on them, be real, just ignore em. I even cut the coment short, but you probably get my points, I hope, there is an difference between shaving and cutting ones head of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfAWReBmxEs
They will loose, the question is, will we all be dragged down with em, the scums of this earth. Wake up and fight back. Never give up and never give in. We have the truth on our side, and light.
peace
Never did Wankbook its one of my few badges of honor that i can wear
Here is list of Israeli employed or iderectly employed from other countries that trolls this place.
toronto tonto (solomon kupek) klove and light Jacob Wuhl Jen Holms dutchnational occupybacon
These scumbags are good example of said trolls.
but zuckerberg is one of them, on of the thieving and murdering tribe, running the unhinged states of A,wall street and the msm so of course anything no-jewish is prone to be ruled out. but rest assured that once israel is terminated the influence exercised by the tribe will be on the wane.
Come on guys! It’s time to register in Telegram. A lot of fresh photos from Syria and more other interesting things. But the most interesting – Telegram does not record and keep your messages on their servers. PS: Twitter started the political censure too. Looks like they are preparing informational space for Trump’s impeachment.
Facebook was intentionally created as a mass surveillance device and conduit for Neocon propaganda. Best to boycott it entirely, if possible. If you really feel the need to be on a social network, use an alternative like VK or diaspora (an interesting open source network).