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There's still a huge blind spot in the west when it comes to "our" propaganda. You never see the BBC or Radio Free Asia get the "state owned media" tag on social media that's applied to anything Russian or Chinese since 2016.


I think Indians should run media in UK and expose Rishi or whoever they like.

Asians should flag the British media as foreign, can’t expect British do it for them.


I do think that there are substantive differences in the kind of "propaganda" between Russia and the West.

The reporting in the west is certainly ideologically biased with lots of ignorance and naturally often steeped in sensationalism.

Russias reporting is very often an intentional hostile psyops directed by state forces. Whatever take damages western society most is getting air time.

Its the same with western NGOs vs russian influence campaigns.

Those NGOs were in Russia since the 90s and havent changed a bit. Its the russian state that changed in a way that those NGOs are now hostile and detrimental to the cleptocracy. Now they are all banned.

In contrast Russias support of extremist groups in the west has no ideological consistency and is only aimed at doing maximum damage.


I think at this point there have been more debunked reports of Russian influence from our own propaganda organs than actual Russian influence.

Not that you're wrong, they're trying, but we are just so much bigger.


> You never see the BBC or Radio Free Asia get the "state owned media" tag on social media

Youtube at least tags BBC videos with "BBC is a British public broadcast service."




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