Social media has been flooded with Russian disinformation, but unlike Russia’s previous campaigns to spread falsehoods, few people seem to be falling for it.
has been made more difficult by social media platforms’ suspending OSINT professionals for sharing Russian disinformation as they attempt to debunk it.
Several researchers trying to use social media breadcrumbs to track Russian troop movements were suspended from Twitter on 23 February. Twitter’s head of site integrity, Yoel Roth,it was human error that caught legitimate fact-checkers up in the dragnet designed to stop social media manipulation. Despite social media’s hiccups, it appears that, for the first time, the West has Russia’s number when it comes to disinformation. “In my assessment, Russia is decisively losing this information conflict,” saysat the Atlantic Council, a US think tank. “Its actions have received nearly universal condemnation. Its disinformation and false flags have been largely dispelled before they could take root,” he says.
That will make it harder for Russia to reach a political settlement on the Ukraine conflict, Brooking says. After pumping social media full of fake information, the international world won’t believe them in any negotiations. It could also make it more challenging when Russia has to reckon for its actions. “The internet does not forget. The evidence now being recorded of air strikes, firefights and artillery bombardments will become the battlefields for future information conflict,” says Brooking.
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