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Ukraine has won the information war, at least in the West

2022-03-21T19:27:25.561Z


An English researcher has analyzed the abundance of pro-Russian tweets elsewhere than in Europe and America, particularly in Africa and Asia, where the Kremlin's strategy is deployed.


This is a common informational bias that could be summed up by the expression “

see noon at your doorstep

”.

One only has to scroll through the thousands of messages displaying the flag in the colors of Ukrainian wheat and sky to realize that, since the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24, the Ukrainians have won a battle, even a war, that of communication .

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An all-out campaign that does not set in motion only official institutions, but also thousands or even millions of anonymous Internet users and more or less influential opinion leaders.

Among the messages, there are first of all those which glorify the military successes of the Ukrainian armed forces, the fierce resistance of the population, the just and strong determination of their leaders - and in particular of the first of them, Volodymyr Zelensky.

And on the other, those who denounce Russian war crimes, as well as the humiliating rout of an army which went into battle too sure of itself.

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Source: lefigaro

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