With media becoming a proper battleground, it is becoming yet more difficult to learn the news. Olga Alekseeva, RIAC Member and Editor-in-Chief of
gazeta.ru
online newspaper shares her thoughts on information wars and Telegram channels that have recently become very popular.
Pavel Koshkin:
Make Facts Great Again: Is it Possible to Withstand Fake News?
How dangerous is information war?
Unfortunately, information war is our today’s reality and ...
... agenda and the content is factitious. Adding the explosive development of social media to the equation where every user can operate as a media outlet in each user’s own right, the link between the assumed general quarters and the assumed soldiers in information warfare becomes even less obvious.
So why are independent media and blogs often much more aggressive than state-owned networks? Why are people eager to spread propaganda at their own free will without any coercion, producing a multiplier effect?
To answer this question, we should look deep into our collective ...