Tech giants built digital dragnets to stop Russian propaganda—here’s how it still seeps through | Daily Dot

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Despite best efforts by tech giants, no clampdown can fully achieve its purpose when up against the sheer volume of people on the internet.

The kremlin is using its skill at creating and delivering propaganda and false information online, using the swaths of far-right conspiracy theorist, and communist sympathizers to spread and parrot its disinformation.

The posts on these platforms repeat false information, such as Russia’s claim that its bombing of a Ukrainian maternity hospital was actually staged, that it invaded to liberate Ukraine, or that the nation—led by a Jewish descendant of Holocaust survivors—has descended into neo-Nazism.

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