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How Putin Secretly Conquered Russia’s Social Media Over the Past 3 Years (globalvoicesonline.org)
2 points by r0h1n on Jan 30, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



This reminds me of a clip from Adam Curtis (British documentarian) about nonlinear warfare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyop0d30UqQ

The clip discusses Vladislav Surkov as does the article. Nonlinear war suggests creating conflicts in a way where no one can distinguish what's real and what's not, not being able to identify the motives of the forces at work (like the recent Ukraine conflict for instance).

Very relevant idea to what the author is talking about here.




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