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In what seems like the latest attempt to push pro-Kremlin narratives in Ukraine, a media company is targeting areas newly under Russian control. Russian troops have been present in the port city of Berdyansk since mid-May, and an outlet, whose name translates to Southern Front, has been disseminating misleading or unsubstantiated claims across YouTube, Telegram and through their own website.

ISD analyst Julia Smirnova, whose been following the information war since the beginning of the invasion, said to the BBC that this is “likely to be part of the wider Russian strategy to establish control over the occupied territories of Ukraine”. Julia cited that the company is framing the invasion as a “liberation” and Russian forces as the “protectors”.

Southern Front posted a message on Telegram on the first day of the invasion to its about 25 subscribers. Today, their audience has grown to 23,000. Collectively, channels posting Southern Front content have more than 80,000 subscribers, as reported by the BBC.

 

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https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-in-the-news/pro-kremlin-media-outlet-southern-front-is-targeting-russian-occupied-areas-in-ukraine-with-propaganda-narratives/

 

 

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Disinformation can pay off on social networks, as a study by the independent organization Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), which specializes in social network analysis, points out. The organization has identified twelve influencers in eight Western countries who “spread pro-Russian disinformation discourse”. These influencers have accumulated more than two million followers on the Internet, the majority acquired since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, on February 24.

 

Among them are two French women. The most popular of them is Anne-Laure Bonnel, who introduces herself as an investigator. “Military support and US presence in Ukraine since 2014??? The proof in pictures! The US has been arming Ukraine for years. The hidden face of a war…”, she tweeted, for example, on May 30, on her account, followed by more than 72,000 people – there were only 26,000 at the start of the war. In 2015, she produced a documentary on the Donbass region, exclusively shot on the Russian side of the border and, in fact, criticized by several journalists present on the spot, including the correspondent of Le Monde in Moscow, Benoît Vitkine. “She was carried around in the separatist territories by… officials from these same territories. It is them that we heard, in the film, asking questions to the witnesses, not the journalist. (…) False things, which have been repeatedly dismantled, fables concocted by Russian television and which Anne-Laure Bonnel's guides magically put under her nose, ”he explained in March 2022. Critics to which the investigator responded to our colleagues at Liberation.

 

Christelle Néant, for her part, is the founder of the pro-Russian news site Donbass Insider and has lived in this region of Ukraine for six years. Regularly present on the RT channel (ex-Russia Today, financed by the Kremlin and now banned in Europe), she "continues to defend Moscow's point of view and denounces the 'lies' of Westerners" as she wrote in March , the media review site Stopping on images. The one who declares that “neo-Nazi battalions work for kyiv” is followed by more than 40,000 people on her YouTube channel and 26,000 on her Telegram group.

 

Read also (2017): Article reserved for our Russia Today France subscribers: the weapon of Russian “soft power”

 

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The phenomenon affects the whole world: the United States, Canada, Italy or even Spain are concerned. The popularity gain for these influencers is sometimes dizzying. One of the most prominent examples is that of Alina Lipp, a 29-year-old German, former member of the German Green Party, who until recently was almost unknown on the Internet. Her Telegram channel had just 2,000 followers at the start of February. She is now at the head of a community of more than 141,000 members, for which she publishes in German and Russian. It displays, for example, various shots where we see a man, a swastika tattooed on his chest. “Photos on phone of slain Ukrainian soldier. But there are no Nazis in Ukraine,” the legend quipped.

 

TRANSLATION BY JULES LETAMBOUR.

 

READ MORE:

https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2022/06/08/guerre-en-ukraine-les-influenceurs-prorusses-en-ordre-de-bataille_6129421_4408996.html

 

NOW WHAT IS ISD? THE INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC DIALOGUE?

 

In their own words:

The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) is an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to safeguarding human rights and reversing the rising tide of polarisation, extremism and disinformation worldwide.

Who we are

Since 2006, ISD has been at the forefront of analysing and responding to extremism in all its forms. Our global team of researchers, digital analysts, policy experts, frontline practitioners, technologists and activists have kept ISD’s work systematically ahead of the curve on this fast-evolving set of threats. We have innovated and scaled sector-leading policy and operational programmes – on- and offline – to push back the forces threatening democracy and cohesion around the world today.

ISD partners with governments, cities, businesses and communities, working to deliver solutions at all levels of society, to empower those that can really impact change. We are headquartered in London with a global footprint that includes teams in Washington DC, Berlin, Amman, Nairobi and Paris.

 

IN GUS's VERNACULAR:

ISD could be (is) a shop front for CIA/CGHQ disinformation designed to prevent legitimate information.

 

THIS SITE (YD) WAS SET UP AS A COUNTER US-BULLSHIT BY PRESENTING REAL INFORMATION. We are still fighting the US bullshit wherever it comes from....

 

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