Unsolved:Disinformation in the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis

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Short description: War-time fake news


Disinformation has been distributed by governmental agencies and web brigades of Russian Federation, the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) separatist areas of Ukraine in relation to the Prelude to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the invasion itself. Russian disinformation and fake news stories have focused on themes such as false flags claims of Ukrainian and NATO aggression, claims of human rights violations and even genocide carried out by Ukrainians on the Russian speakers (such claims often attempt to attribute Russian war crimes to the Ukrainian side), claims that NATO and Ukraine develop biological weapons targeted at Russia, and claims of widespread local populace support for the Russian "liberation". Some of the disinformation has been aimed at promoting anti-refugee sentiment, intending to weaken international support for Ukraine.

Russian disinformation has been particularly pervasive and successful in Russia itself, due to censorship of war news and state control of most media. While due to the extent of misinformation, Russian media have been restricted from operation and suffered from reputation loss in many Western and developed countries, they have met with more success spreading their point of view in many developing countries. In particular, Chinese media has been very sympathetic to the Russian side, and has repeatedly censored war news or reproduced Russian fake new news and disinformation.

Ukrainian media has been accused of telling propaganda stories to support their cause, such as Ghost of Kyiv, though such stories were not comparable to the Russia's disinformation campaign.[1] Both sides have been accused of exaggerating military losses of the opposing side, while minimising their own.

Aims and attribution

Pro-Kremlin TV and radio host Vladimir Solovyov voiced support for his country's invasion of Ukraine.[2]

Disinformation largely attributed to Russia (both state agencies and web brigades) since the 2014 beginning of the Russo–Ukrainian war aimed to generate support for Russia, for example by alleging Ukrainian involvement in serious human rights violations.[3][4]

In January 2022, aims of disinformation (misinformation intended to deliberately deceive) distributed by Russian authorities included using "wedge issues" to encourage disunity among Western countries in support for Ukraine; to counter themes promoted by the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); to create plausible deniability for human rights violations carried out by Russian forces;[5] and to create a casus belli for further invading Ukraine.[6]

Facebook uncovered a Russian campaign using fake accounts, and attempts to hack the accounts of high-profile Ukrainians.[7] There are reports of paid Russian government staff searching for "organic content" posted by genuine users in support of the Kremlin, while making sure that these do not run afoul of platform guidelines, then amplify these posts. Researchers have found that the Internet Research Agency (IRA) has operated numerous troll farms who spam critics of the Kremlin with pro-Putin and pro-war comments.[8]

China state media has largely used Russian state media stories and information from Russian officials, including echoing misinformation and conspiracy theories. In March 2022, CGTN paid for digital ads on Facebook targeting global users with briefings and newscasts featuring pro-Kremlin talking points about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine after Meta Platforms banned Russian state media advertisement buys.[9][10] The same month, CGTN repeated unsubstantiated Russian claims of biological weapons labs in Ukraine.[11] A leaked internal directive from Beijing News ordered its employees not to publish news reports that were "negative about Russia or pro-West." An analysis found that nearly half of Weibo's social media posts used Russia sources which were pro-Putin or described Ukraine in negative terms, while another third of posts were anti-West and blamed expansion of NATO, while very few posts described the war in neutral terms. Several history professors have penned an open letter that strongly opposed China's support for "Russia's war against Ukraine" but their post was quickly deleted by censors, while a celebrity who criticized Russia over the invasion had her account suspended.[12][13][14]

Due to Russian fake news laws, Facebook and Twitter were blocked by Russia authorities, while TikTok has purportedly banned new uploads as of May 6. However a study by Tracking Exposed found out that TikTok had blocked all non-Russian content, but has continued to host old videos uploaded by Russia-based accounts and permitted Russian state media to continue posting, described as establishing a "splinternet" within a global social media platform.[15] TikTok's vague censorship has permitted pro-Kremlin news but blocked foreign accounts and critics of the war, as a result "Russians are left with a frozen TikTok, dominated by pro-war content".[16][17]

Effects

Putin and Konstantin Ernst, chief of Russia's main state-controlled TV station Channel One.[18]

In February 2022, Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat judged that the quality of Russian misinformation videos had weakened, but remained especially effective for the older generation of Russians.[6]

Some observers noted what they described as a "generational struggle" among Russians over perception of the war, with younger Russians generally opposed to the war and older Russians more likely to accept the narrative presented by state-controlled mass media in Russia.[19] Kataryna Wolczuk, an associate fellow of Chatham House's Russia and Eurasia programme, said that "[Older] Russians are inclined to think in line with the official 'narrative' that Russia is defending Russian speakers in Ukraine, so it's about offering protection rather than aggression."[19] About two-thirds of Russians use television as their primary source of daily news.[20]

Many Ukrainians say that their relatives and friends in Russia trust what the state-controlled media tells them and refuse to believe that there is a war in Ukraine and that the Russian army is shelling Ukrainian cities.[21][22][23]

The main reason many Russians have supported Putin and the "special military operation" in Ukraine has to do with the propaganda and disinformation.[24][25][26] At the end of March, a poll conducted in Russia by the Levada Center concluded the following: When asked why they think the military operation is taking place, respondents said it was to protect and defend civilians, ethnic Russians or Russian speakers in Ukraine (43%), to prevent an attack on Russia (25%), to get rid of nationalists and "denazify" Ukraine (21%), and to incorporate Ukraine and/or the Donbas region into Russia (3%)."[27]

In China,[28][29] India,[30][31] Indonesia,[32] Malaysia,[33] Africa,[34] the Arab world,[35] and Latin America,[36] some social media users trended towards showing sympathy for Russian narratives. A study performed by Airlangga University revealed that 71% of Indonesian netizens supported the invasion.[37] This support was due to affection for Putin's strongman leadership, as well as anti-US and anti-Western political alignments.[38] Additionally, many Indonesians supported Russia due to positive reports of Ramzan Kadyrov and claims of the Azov Battalion covering their bullets with lard to be used against Chechen troops in the invasion.[39][40]

A series of four online polls by Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation found that between 25 February and 3 March, the share of respondents in Moscow who considered Russia an "aggressor" increased from 29% to 53%, while the share of those who considered Russia a "peacemaker" fell by half from 25% to 12%.[41] On 5 April 2022, Alexei Navalny said the "monstrosity of lies" in the Russian state media "is unimaginable. And, unfortunately, so is its persuasiveness for those who have no access to alternative information."[42] He tweeted that "warmongers" among Russian state media personalities "should be treated as war criminals. From the editors-in-chief to the talk show hosts to the news editors, [they] should be sanctioned now and tried someday."[43]

Russian themes

Numerous themes of disinformation either originated in Russia or favoring the Russian point of view have been reported.

A rally in support of Novorossiya in Moscow on 11 June 2014

Claims of Ukrainian and NATO aggression

Spokesmen of Russian state media, the breakaway Donetsk People Republic, or Vladimir Putin have made unsubstantiated claims of aggression by NATO[44] or Ukraine against Russian citizens, including assassination,[3] sabotage,[45] genocide,[46] and the development of bio-weapons[47] including birds carrying fatal diseases.[48]

Assassination attempts

According to Bellingcat, a supposed bombing of a "separatist police chief" by a "Ukrainian spy", broadcast on Russian state television, showed visual evidence of the bombing of an old "green army vehicle". The old car's registration plate was that of the separatist police chief, but the same licence plate was also seen on a different, new SUV.[3][45][6]

On 18 February 2022, the Luhansk People's Republic showed video appearing to show the removal of a car full of explosives that had been prepared for blowing up a train full of women and children evacuating to Russia. The video's metadata showed that it had been recorded on 12 June 2019.[45]

Sabotage attempts

The breakaway Donetsk People's Republic released a video on 18 February 2022 that claimed to show Poles trying to blow up a chlorine tank. The video was distributed further by Russian media. The video's metadata showed that it was created on 8 February 2022, and included a mix of different pieces of audio or video, including a 2010 YouTube video from a military firing range in Finland .[45][6]

Ukrainian intelligence attributed responsibility for the video to the Russian intelligence service GRU.[6]

Genocide in Donbas

In mid February 2022, Russian president Vladimir Putin baselessly claimed that Ukraine was carrying out genocide in Donbas.[46] He said the purpose of the military "operation" in Ukraine was to "protect the people" in the predominantly Russian-speaking region of Donbas who, according to him, "for eight years now, [had] been facing humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the Kyiv regime".[46] Putin's claims were dismissed by the international community,[49] and Russian claims of genocide have been widely rejected as baseless.[50][46][6] More than 3,000 civilians were killed as a result of the war in Donbas, but there is no evidence to support the claim that Ukraine committed the genocide of Russian-speaking people.[46] The European Commission has also rejected the allegations as "Russian disinformation".[51] The US embassy in Ukraine called the Russian genocide claim a "reprehensible falsehood".[52] Ned Price, a spokesperson for the US State Department, said that Moscow was making such claims as an excuse for invading Ukraine.[53] Russian media also falsely blamed Ukraine for 8 years of war in Donbas.[54]

In March and April 2022, propaganda in the state-controlled media and on pro-Kremlin Telegram channels has falsely accused Ukrainian troops of attacking civilian targets in Mariupol and bombing Ukrainian cities.[55][56][57]

Biological weapons labs

In March 2022, Russia made unsubstantiated allegations that Ukraine was developing biological weapons in a network of labs linked to the US.[47] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China and Chinese state media amplified Russian claims.[58][59][60] QAnon promoters were also echoing the disinformation.[61][62][63] BBC Reality Check found no evidence supporting the claims.[64] The United Nations also refuted the claim.[62][65] Russian biologists in and outside of Russia have debunked the claims, stating that the allegations are "transparently false".[66]

According to researcher Adam Rawnsley, the Kremlin has a history of discrediting ordinary biology labs in former Soviet republics, having previously spread conspiracy theories about Georgia and Kazakhstan similar to the accusations deployed against Ukraine.[67][68]

Birds as bio-weapons

Prior to March 2022, the Russian Ministry of Defense had made unsubstantiated accusations that the United States was manufacturing bio-weapons in Ukraine. In March, the Ministry followed up with another conspiracy theory, which claims that the U.S. is training birds in Ukraine to spread disease among Russian citizens, according to a statement given by Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman of the Ministry to Russian state-controlled media. Specific details were given about diseases involved, including the name of a specific strain of flu with 50% mortality, as well as Newcastle disease. Media reports included maps, documents, and photos of birds with American military insignia, and also claimed that live, infected birds had been captured in eastern Ukraine.[48][69][70]

The claims were laughed off by U.S. State Department spokesman, who called them "outright lies", "total nonsense", "absurd", "laughable" and "propaganda". Director of the CIA William Burns told the U.S. Senate that Russia was using such claims to prepare the terrain for a biological or chemical attack by Russian forces against Ukraine, which they would then blame on the United States and Ukraine.[48][69]

Ukrainian use of black magic

In May 2022, as the invasion continued, Russian state media claimed that Ukraine was using black magic to fend off the Russian military. RIA Novosti claimed that evidence of black magic had been found in an eastern Ukrainian village; according to their report, Ukrainian soldiers had allegedly consecrated their "weapons with blood magick" at a location with a "satanic seal".[71][72]

Claimed success of Russian efforts

Flight and surrender of Ukrainian President

The Russian state media agency TASS claimed that Zelenskyy fled Kyiv following the invasion and also that he had surrendered. Zelenskyy used social media to post statements, videos and photos to counter the Russian disinformation.[73][74]

Other claims

False flag fakes

In March 2022, videos were discovered purporting to show Ukrainian-produced disinformation about missile strikes inside Ukraine which were then "debunked" as some other event outside Ukraine. However, this may be the first case of a disinformation false-flag operation,[75] as the original, supposedly "Ukraine-produced" disinformation was never disseminated by anyone, and was in fact preventive disinformation created specifically to be debunked and cause confusion and mitigate the impact on the Russian public of real footage of Russian strikes within Ukraine that may get past Russian-controlled media. According to Patrick Warren, head of Clemson's Media Forensics Hub, "It's like Russians actually pretending to be Ukrainians spreading disinformation. ... The reason that it's so effective is because you don't actually have to convince someone that it's true. It's sufficient to make people uncertain as to what they should trust."[75]

Olenivka prison massacre, described by most independent experts as a Russian-orchestrated sabotage, has been reported by Russian media as a missile attack by Ukraine. While the exact cause of the indicent has still not been conclusively confirmed, most experts conclude the Russian version highly improbable.[76][77][78][79]

Anti-refugee sentiments

Russian disinformation and fake news have also attempted to promote anti-refugee sentiments in Poland and other countries dealing with the influx of mostly Ukrainian refugees from the war. Social media accounts identified as having ties to Russia have been promoting stories such as those about refugees committing crimes or being unfairly priviliged, or about locals discriminating against the refugees (in particular, on the racist grounds). Such disinformation intends to weaken international support for Ukraine.[80][81][82][83]

News masquerading as Western coverage

During the crisis, a number of fabricated CNN headlines and stories went viral on social media.[84] Misinformation spread on social media included a faked image of CNN reporting that Steven Seagal had been seen alongside the Russian military,[84] false tweets claiming that a CNN journalist had been killed in Ukraine,[84][85] a CNN lower third that was digitally altered to include a claim that Putin had issued a statement warning India not to interfere in the conflict,[84][86] and another that was altered to claim that Putin planned to delay the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine until "Biden delivers weapons to Ukraine for Russia to capture",[87] as well as a fabricated CNN tweet supposedly reporting on a figure referred to as "the Kharkiv Kid finder" alongside an image that actually portrayed the YouTuber Vaush, who resides in the US and was not in Kharkiv at the time.[88][89]

In addition to fake news with CNN logo, other Western stations have had similar fakes distributed, for example BBC or DW.[90][91]

"Grandmother with red flag"

Further information: Soviet imagery during the Russo-Ukrainian War

A video showing an elderly woman holding a Soviet flag to greet the Ukrainian military has been widely spread in Runet since March 2022. The grandmother with a red flag was turned into a iconic image by Russian propaganda. Allegedly, it represents the desire of "ordinary Ukrainians" to reunite with their "Russian brothers".[92]

Anna Ivanovna, the subject of the "grandmother with red flag" video, explained that she mistook the Ukrainian military for Russian invaders and she wanted to "placate" them with a red Bolshevik flag so they would not destroy the village. She now regrets it and feels like a "traitor".[93] Her house near Kharkiv was destroyed by the Russian army, and she and her husband have been evacuated. She cursed the Russian army which she deemed was responsible for shelling her house. The Ukrainian military appealed to the public to not chastise Ivanovna, who was a victim herself.[92][94]

Ukrainian themes

The Ghost of Kyiv

Main page: Unsolved:Ghost of Kyiv

On the second day of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, videos and picture went viral on social media, with claims that a Ukrainian pilot nicknamed the "Ghost of Kyiv" had shot down 6 Russian fighter jets in the first 30 hours of the war. However, there have been no credible evidence that he existed.[95][1] A video of the alleged pilot was shared on Facebook and the official Twitter account of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, was later found to be from the video game Digital Combat Simulator World.[96][97] An altered photo was also shared by the former president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko.[98] On 30 April 2022, Ukrainian Air Force asked the "Ukrainian community not to neglect the basic rules of information hygiene" and to "check the sources of information, before spreading it",[99] stating that the Ghost of Kyiv "embodies the collective spirit of the highly qualified pilots of the Tactical Aviation Brigade who are successfully defending Kyiv and the region".[100]

Russian military losses

According to a researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University in Sweden, regarding Russian military losses, Ukraine's government was engaged in a misinformation campaign aimed to boost morale, and Western media were generally happy to accept its claims, while Russia was probably downplaying its own casualties. Ukraine also tended to be quieter about its own military fatalities.[101][102][103] This communication policy has been described as a "propaganda campaign"[103] and a "misinformation campaign"[101] by the Ukrainian government, aimed at encouraging the population with tales of successful resistance and military success,[102] which is paralleled by Russian denial of military losses,[102][101] disinformation offensive and censorship.[103]

Release of unproven intelligence

United States (US) officials claimed that they had intelligence suggesting that Russia might be preparing to use chemical weapons in Ukraine, a claim that US President Joe Biden later echoed publicly. However, in April 2022, U.S. officials told NBC News that there is no evidence of Russia bringing chemical weapons near Ukraine, that the intelligence was based on weak evidence, and that the intelligence was released to deter Russia from using chemical weapons.[104][105]

U.S. officials claimed that Russia had turned to China for potential military assistance, a claim one European official and two U.S. officials said "lacked hard evidence". U.S. officials told NBC News that there are no indications that China is considering providing weapons to Russia and that the Biden administration made this claim to discourage China from actually providing assistance to Russia.[104][105] Dave DeCamp of Antiwar.com noted that The New York Times , The Telegraph, and the Associated Press all reported the claim from U.S. officials as if it was objective reality.[105]

Censorship

In Russia

On 4 March 2022, President Putin signed into law a bill introducing prison sentences of up to 15 years for those who publish "knowingly false information" about the Russian military and its operations, leading to some media outlets in Russia to stop reporting on Ukraine or shutting their media outlet.[106][107][108] Although the 1993 Russian Constitution has an article expressly prohibiting censorship,[109] the Russian censorship apparatus Roskomnadzor ordered the country's media to only use information from Russian state sources or face fines and blocks, and accused a number of independent media outlets of spreading "unreliable socially significant untrue information" about the shelling of Ukrainian cities by the Russian army and civilian deaths.[110][111]

Russian Roskomnadzor launched an investigation against the Novaya Gazeta, Echo of Moscow, inoSMI, MediaZona, New Times, Dozhd (TV Rain), and other independent Russian media outlets for publishing "inaccurate information about the shelling of Ukrainian cities and civilian casualties in Ukraine as a result of the actions of the Russian Army".[112] On 1 March 2022, the Russian government blocked access to Dozhd, as well as Echo of Moscow, in response to their coverage of the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces. The channel closed, with its general director announcing they would be "temporarily halting its operations", on 3 March 2022.[113]

In Ukraine

In 2021, Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council banned pro-Russian opposition TV stations 112 Ukraine, NewsOne and ZIK. Zelensky's spokeswoman explained that the decision is intended to "protect national security" as the banned stations became "tools of war".[114] In March 2022, Zelensky signed a decree, introducing a "unified information policy" under martial law, uniting news broadcast on national channels into a single platform.[115] Heads of the TV channels rejected accusations that the content is dictated by the government, stating that censorship is focused on withholding information such as Ukrainian military positions. Some commentators noted that airtime is "almost exclusively given to people close to the president".[116]

In China

Coverage of the war in social media was censored in China. The Chinese media have been reported as "regularly quoting disinformation and conspiracy theories from Russian sources".[117]

Countering Russian disinformation

The United States Department of State and the European External Action Service of the European Union (EU) published guides aiming to respond to Russian disinformation.[5] Twitter paused all ad campaigns in Ukraine and Russia in an attempt to curb misinformation spread by ads.[118] European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced an EU-wide ban of Russian state-sponsored RT and Sputnik news channels on 27 February, after Poland and Estonia had done so days before.[119]

Reddit, an American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website, quarantined subreddits r/Russia, the national subreddit of Russia, and r/GenZedong, a self-described "Dengist" subreddit on March 2022, after both the subreddits were spreading Russian disinformation. In the case of r/Russia, the site's administrators removed one of the moderators, for spreading disinformation. Sister sub of r/Russia, r/RussiaPolitics was also quarantined for similar reasons. When the subreddits are quarantined, they don't show up in searches, recommendations and user feeds, and anyone who tries to access the quarantined subreddits would be shown a warning regarding the content, which they must acknowledge in order to access it.[120][121]

See also

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