"Reveal data as before February 24": The US is trying to stop the secret operation of the Russian Federation - NYT
About it reports The New York Times. The article published in August by Pressenza repeated the statement from the Russian Federation that the event stole the relics and works of art from the Kiev Monastery. Representatives of the United States drew attention to the publication not because it was stated in it, but because of the source and target audience to which the text was addressed.
State Department representatives acknowledged that the article is part of a secret information campaign for the spread of Russian propaganda in Central and South America. But at the same time, the local, not the Kremlin media.
The operation is still in the embryo itself, but in the center of global interaction, the United States has decided to publish the information received in the hope of weaken the overall effect on the Latin American population, where the Russian Federation seeks to discredit the United States and undermine Ukraine's international support.
The American Center was established in 2017, it is engaged in the fight against propaganda and misinformation, and its staff regularly tell about the Kremlin's activities. But now a new tactic is used, designed to detect and prevent the information campaign until it is not so large. It is more difficult for false narratives to counteract when they have already spread. "What we try to do is to show the hidden hand of the Kremlin," - explained the coordinator of the center James P. Rubin.
According to him, the department was on the basis of recently received data, but the details were not reported. At the same time, such disclosure of the intentions of the Russian Federation resonates with the fact that the administration of Joe Baiden did before the full -scale invasion of Russian troops in February 2022, journalists said.
Last week, the State Department representatives published a report on activities in Brazil of the International Organization "New Resistance", which shares the views of Alexander Dugin, a former Soviet dissident who became one of the ideologues of the imperial ambitions of the Russian Federation. It is reported that the aforementioned project promotes misinformation of the Russian Federation, conducts seminars and training courses.
The new campaign involves two Russian organizations and the Institute for Internet Development, which is governed by a former Kremlin official. All of them are closely related to the Presidential Administration of Russian Vladimir Putin. Moscow organizations-the Social Design Agency and Structura National Technologies, which deals with information technologies-mentioned as sources in propaganda campaigns.
They have introduced economic sanctions of the EU for participation in the spread of Russian propaganda on war in Ukraine. Among other things, it is a Recent Relable News news agency, which published fake articles that allegedly wrote real media, including. The Washington Post. Fake publications were widely circulated on the network.
According to the State Department, as part of the current campaign, Russian organizations plan to order articles through a network of local authors and use Shi-Catbots to distribute them on social networks. The geography of such efforts is quite wide: Russian organizations are trying to make contacts with the media all over Latin America - from Mexico to Chile.
The Kremlin intends to use the openness of Latin American media and information ecosystem, explained by James Rubin, who heads the center of global interaction. The Russian Federation is actively investing in the promotion of its narratives on war in Ukraine, as well as blackers the reputation of the United States and NATO. At the same time, both public and secret means are used.
Recently, US intelligence has warned the agreed efforts of the Russian Federation within the United States, which were aimed at convincing the US public of the need to support the supply of weapons to Kiev. The Institute for Internet Development is a Russian organization headed by Alexei Gorezlavsky, who previously oversees the policy on the Internet in the Kremlin.
According to him, in 2023 information campaigns concerning the war in Ukraine, it was planned to spend $ 32 million, according to the data of two representatives of the State Department, which agreed to share information on the conditions of anonymity. Representatives of the US reported that the new campaign is aimed at "bleach" Russian news and perception of war in Ukraine through existing contacts and authors who write Spanish and Portuguese for news publications in the Latin American region.
It is unclear how big the information campaign should be, but the fact that it covers a huge number of Latin America countries is already saying a lot. We will remind that in early September the counterintelligence of Germany reported that Russian propaganda became more aggressive, and the general approach changed.