In Sweden a TV news station exposed a troll farm run by the far right party. I’d say that counts.
In Norway, NRK started a misinformation campaign in a local school to influence the school election to show how easy it was.
It was not well received
And what came of it?
There was a lot of talk about it in the news, and the right wing party did distance itself from some of the elements of the operation. Mostly they played the fake news card though, and essentially claimed that the deep state was against them -
because the investigation came from the Swedish state media company.They also had a lackluster election result (EU elections) right after, but who knows how much impact this thing had, if any.
Anyway, basically all of them are still in their jobs and they are actively taking a shit down the throats of the Swedish population, as they are currently in the majority block of the government and can as such get a lot of their politics through.
Honestly, that sounds exactly like what the CIA will produce when they need people to support censorship or just discourage people from listening to counter-narratives, the same way they supported the production of Zero Dark Thirty and Homeland when they wanted to support torture and unaccountability.
Don’t forget 24. Multiple TV seasons of, “torture is necessary when you’re desperate.”
There is/was a show about Russian spies living in America as Americans though. I watched a few episodes when it came out but it wasn’t my kinda thing.
Its called FOX news. Would not recommend.
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Edit: Welp…guess I can’t make small text on Lemmy like I could on reddit. The context here is like you’re hearing me as you’re walking away from a dork saying dork things.
Come on grampa, let’s get you home
The small text renders fine for me on Eternity for Lemmy
Ned Ryerson?
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I STILL have no idea how to read your username…
Kolanaki
It’s a combination of my dog’s names, Kona and Loki; but then I mistyped it when I made my account (it should have been KolOnaki, but whatevs). o7
Oh Snap!
It was called The Americans and had an amazing 80s soundtrack to go with it. That show was awesome.
The Americans was partially based on real life. We literally traded Russian sleeper agents back in 2010.
The Americans is one of the best shows ever made.
Mr Robot kinda fits with China being the big baddie.
I think “Homeland” had a plotline with online misinformation farms at some point. That’s all I can think of
The Americans was 5 (I think) glorious seasons of undercover KGB agents in the US.
A drama like right now about Russians trying to influence world politics? And US elections? I’m not sure if it would be brilliant and we’d be all over it or if we’re so sick of hearing about it that we wouldn’t watch it
How about a Silicon Valley-like comedy except at a Russian troll farm.
“Fuck you, Guilfoylevich!”
I was thinking Chris Hansen style reverse cat fishing.
Edit: “UwU I’m 35 y/o incel. Won’t someone come to my chat room and propagandize me UwU.”
Not right now, but a couple of years ago.
In 20 years, Trump the movie.
Well… The boys is actually pretty close. Evil corporation lying to the public and with uncle Sam’s support.
I remember reading about digital warfare and how the character of different weaponry can be stabilising or destabilising.
So the example given was nuclear weapons. The consequences of using them are so disastrous that there is no good use case, and so they tend to be stabilising. They discourage use.
Digital warfare is destabilising, because it’s very easy to do and very hard to catch, so you’re better off using it, even without any declared war.
Information warfare is probably very similar, it encourages use, but that’s because it’s very low-stakes. It wouldn’t be very exciting. I imagine it’d make a better comedy than a drama.
