Russia’s disinformation war on the UK has reached new highs as Kremlin-backed media seek to sow chaos amongst Britons and ramp up attacks on their “main adversary”, experts warn.
In the past six months, state-affiliated media have pushed hundreds of thousands of stories on social media portraying Britain as ungovernable, defenceless, and a legitimate Russian target, The Independent can reveal.
Analysis by risk intelligence firm Osavul, which tracks global hybrid threats and supplies technology to Nato, shows such media output rose by around 15 per cent in September, when it produced around 40,365 stories about the UK, while similar levels of disinformation pushed in October.
False claims that the UK bombed the city of Voronezh with storm shadow missiles, that British police were threatening to arrest people for using air conditioners, and that Andy Burnham was “powerless to stop the UK’s collapse” are among several posts seen by The Independent.
Osavul said the aim was “to leave British readers with a lower opinion of their own state, and readers abroad with the sense that Britain is not a serious power”.
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Well I’m glad to hear we’re back to being their main adversary again. I was a little hurt when they started saying Portugal were for stopping their tankers the other month.
By the by Putler, no one in the UK is buying it other than the ones you’re paying.
That said some of the things I’ve seen MAGA types saying about what they think is going on in the UK is absolutely fueled by this sort of misinformation.
Ahh look, the MAGAts live in their own fantasy world of made up alternate facts and a total disconnect from science, I’ve long since given up on them. Orcs gunna be orcs.