Social Media and Propaganda in Ukraine
Russia has lost its capacity to isolate millions of people from each other, and stop them from forming alternative interpretations of events on the ground. The propaganda machine can no longer be sure that Russians or Ukrainians are only hearing the carefully curated state version of reality.
Ordinary Ukrainians can now see images of Russian tanks in flames. Since the late 1990s, it has become impossible to prevent people from exploring different sources of media information. The first politicization of the new non-official media was during the “Arab Spring” of 2011, when social media became the vehicle for revolutionaries in North Africa. Ukraine took note.Repressive regimes around the world have quickly realized that state media is losing its power, and have moved into the social media space with more sophisticated propaganda-by-volume tactics. Humans can weaponize anything, even their cell phones.
However, two can play that game, and Ukrainians are big players in the cybersphere.
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