Frank Views

Surprise, surprise.

OMFG xitter.gq/Newsweek/status/152785…

Again: xitter.gq/caitoz/status/15024155…

Now on top of all the other reasons the US and its allies need to send Ukraine more and better weapons, they need to do so because the Russians are just raping babies to death willy nilly over there. Kyiv stand nothing to lose and everything to gain by simply telling lies.

If the Ukrainian government knows it can promote its military interests just by making incendiary assertions without evidence and have those assertions broadcast around the world, why wouldn't it? It's a no-cost, high-reward tactic they can use to serve their long-term interests.

Made a whole thread about the likelihood of atrocity propaganda getting rolled out in this war a couple months ago. xitter.gq/caitoz/status/15024135…

The Ukrainian government is literally Business Insider's one and only source for its "the Russians are raping babies to death" story, and they don't pretend otherwise, but they published it anyway. This is the state of mainstream western journalism today. businessinsider.com/1-year-o…

The Ukrainian government is quickly learning that it can say anything, literally anything about Russia, without any evidence at all, and the western mainstream press will report it as an actual news story.

The US government will continue to expand its involvement in regulating the spread of information on the internet in the same ways the "disinfo board" was designed to do, it will just be presented in a less ridiculous-looking package and be harder to recognize for what it is.