Russia's Weapons Of Mass Deception

Canadaland doesn't have a foreign bureau, so we can't bring you the latest on the ground conflict in Ukraine. What we can do is show you another side of the conflict that has deeply influenced this ground invasion: the information war.  This week, we take a deep-dive into the inner workings of Russia's information chaos machine and how its use in Ukraine laid the groundwork for what was to come in other countries, including - you guessed it: Canada. We also get a first-hand look at how the information war has led to the rise of cyber sleuths, like our friend James. (Not his real name.) 

Featured in this episode: Alya Shandra, editor-in-chief of Euromaidan Press, Douglas Selvage, a senior research fellow at the Institute for History, Humboldt University (Berlin); Aaron Erlich, assistant professor at McGill University.

Further reading:

• Top Russian news host takes aim at Ukrainian Canadians, CBC News
• False Claims of U.S. Biowarfare Labs in Ukraine Grip QAnon, Justin Ling, Foreign Policy
• The Kremlin's Shifting, Self-Contradicting Narratives on MH17, Bellingcat
• Operation InfeKtion: Russian disinformation from Cold War to Kanye, The New York Times
• Russian disinformation kicks into high gear as Ukraine crisis drags on, LA Times
• TikTok war: How Russia's invasion of Ukraine played to social media's youngest audience, Reuters

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