Czech report warns against Russian tactics to undermine support for Ukraine
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Czechia has been subjected to targeted information operations aimed at reducing support for Ukraine, a recent report by the Czech National Centre for Combating Organised Crime (NCOZ) has revealed.

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“[Russian] information operations are underway […] to gradually demoralise the public debate so that Russian narratives can be disseminated. These are part of an information war to stop the flow of material aid to a struggling Ukraine,” warned the Czech National Centre for Combating Organised Crime (NCOZ) in a report.

“The Kremlin’s efforts to diminish public trust in institutions and the state is not new, but the increase in the intensity of influence operations is a threat,” the Czech Strategic Communications Coordinator Otakar Foltýn said in reaction to the NCOZ report.

  • According to the NCOZ, Russian activities are aimed at influencing the population of Western European countries while increasing the threat of sabotage against critical and transport infrastructure, with local residents and criminal networks are becoming more involved in various activities.

  • These include gathering information, identifying targets, putting pressure on specific individuals, such as those from the exiled diaspora, and even direct attacks on infrastructure and public places.

  • “This issue has been persistent for several years, with Russian and Chinese influence attempting to infiltrate Czech society,” Jurečka said. “We must cultivate a society that can critically think, resist disinformation, and not succumb to fear,” Jurečka added.

  • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    If only elements of the the West hadn’t spent decades undermining their own education systems, and those of countries around them, to create a more pliant workforce. Who could have foreseen problems?!?

  • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
    45·
    3 days ago

    Good luck!

    Over here the reaction has been “They want us to think critically? What are they hiding‽” “They’re teaching kids to think critically? That’s indoctrination!”

  • splonglo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    True! There needs to be logic, rhetoric and media training taught in schools, and media orgs should be removed from the control of wealthy individuals.

  • EherNicht@feddit.orgEnglish
    14·
    3 days ago

    OMG. Someone realised how to protect democracy. Now we just need a wonder to make it happen.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    101·
    3 days ago

    While alt-imperial media promotes the genocide of ukrainians, imperial media promotes the genocide of palestinians.

    That’s why most people will never see through this endless haze of lies, disinfo, propaganda, etc.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      … And when you want to create yet another centralized power which will certainly communicate the right information, you’ll get just a third source of the same, wasting thoughts, money, energy and blood on something which is not an improvement, instead of whatever else you could do.

      It’s funny, when you say you’re ancap and explain the ideology in a few sentences, people hate your guts or say it’s stupid or that you are a useful idiot.

      When you explain the same slowly over the years using current events as illustration, people either agree with you and have nothing to say, or what they say makes sense ; there’s a person in my family who is ex-military, nostalgic over USSR, has kinda Marxist views on the world which he uses to support a kinda fascist ideology, and all my libertarian things considered a channel of degeneracy at some point, yet in the last ~5 years we have no disagreements over how specific things work.

      This leads me to a simple thought that maybe social media as “a huge forum” is inherently harmful. Even when we discuss the same things with the same people regularly over years, we may not notice that and not have any progress in mutual understanding.

      Insularity allows us to have deeper exchange of ideas with the same people naturally, instead of taking your place in the ranks of blues and greens verbally pummeling each other, you are talking as an individual to another person which is an individual.

  • geography082@lemm.eeEnglish
    210·
    2 days ago

    Support for Ukraine’s ?people are more stupid than a thought . 10 years of a “conflict” that a small country like Ukraine holds against Russia? Don’t you think it is strange? This is all a circus people, please open your eyes. There are big economic interest from big capitals and people of power, Putin and Zelenskyy are the operators . NATO is the pretext, EU and America population needs to believe so this shit can keep going. It is the same as the “war against terrorism” in Middle East. I can’t believe people are still believing it. If you study the economic consecuences of the “conflict “, you will understand.

  • Elias Griffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    3 days ago

    The Kremlin is obviously a Mosque. Pooty-poo’s BFF and primary assassin (word origin, Muslim) is Kadyrov, a Muslim. St. Petersburg at one time held the highest Jewish metropolitan population in the world. It says it’s Christian but Patriarch Kirill likes to wear Rolex and is covered in tattoos.

    Russia has had uninterrupted continuous control of the North Pole, the geographic center of Nation State power (Northern Hemisphere), probably since 900, and brags about this fact and the fact they can destroy the whole world with nuclear technology making it the primary terrorist, by definition, in the world.

    Russia invented the modern prison industrial complex, the Gulag. Russia invented Nation-State PyOps. Russia had for nearly a century or more, total control of Afghanistan, the first place where Marijjuana was cultivated, same parallel/latitude as Humbolt County California. Afghanistan, also one of the first places were Poppy Fields were cultivated en-masse. Academic Historians will say Russia failed there, I say the opposite.

    Now here is something wierd and fun to investiage for internet slueths!

    If you are an internet afficionado you’ve noticed over two decades that Google and nearly all other search engines routed all conspiracy theories to really one place, Godlikeproductions. In this place, this forum, run out of the island Nation of Jersey, which is self governing…you cannot post two words, “Tavistock”, the British The Tavistock Institute and “Bolshevik” as in Revoluion. Don’t believe me, try it yourself.

    Spending a couple hours reading that legendary conspiracy forum you’ll notice two things: It loves Trump and Russia. If you go against either of those things there, your logical argument will be minimzed/trivialized, your life threatened, and reputation ridiculted, sometimes with very personal insults. You can just read/lurk and see how many times a life threat is made in one day on that site.

    If nothing else, it’s a fantastic study in psychology as it’s visited daily by people all over the world. Try to see how many other words are banned!

    P.S. I was one of the people responsible for the Call of Duty: Know Your History, Commercial

    ;)