No matter who your Facebook friends are, RT or one of its affiliates has propaganda catered to the things they already believe about the world. It’s the Trojan Horse of propaganda. Many, maybe even most RT articles don’t advance any specific agenda. But they worm their way into your Facebook feed, and then when the news breaks that a passenger plane has been shot down over Ukraine, maybe this pops up…
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And if you don’t bother to dig any deeper into that story and learn that the Russian government’s done stuff like obviously Photoshop satellite photos to make this same claim, maybe you just incorporate that little headline into your view of world events.
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