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So, Russia, was it?

Channel3 Now, a website that masquerades as a legitimate American news outlet but acts as an “aggregator” for real news stories as well as fake viral claims, published the claim on the back of speculation which appeared to have started on X, formerly known as Twitter.

What had begun as a trickle then became a flood, sending the conspiracy theory pouring out through social media anew, where the name was boosted by thousands of other Russia-linked accounts before being repeated by authentic Russian state media, which cited Channel3 Now in its reporting.

Russia produces misinformation, does it?

Oh well. You know, they’re allowed to. Folk get to say what they want whether it’s true or not. That tax money gets spent on it – not that there’s any evidence of that so just assume – doesn’t change that. Folk get to say what they want whether it’s right or worng.

And there we have it. We’ve the BBC after all.

10 thoughts on “So, Russia, was it?”

  1. When I still watched telly, I hit upon an unencrypted satellite channel called Pervy Kanal.

    To my disappointment it just featured films with a lot of guys in top hats and women in big dresses wandering around 19thCentury Petersburg.

    Last time I trust the Russians.

  2. Journalists and numbers. How many people actually viewed this website? How many read the allegedly inflammatory articles? How many were roused by them? We have no idea, there are no metrics available.

    It’s akin to the time Russia spent $100,000 on Facebook ads to try to influence the U.S. election.

  3. So, it wasn’t a supine mass media taunting us with images of an ickle cherubic child murderer and the PM of the country labelling everyone objecting to infinity dinghey rapists as ‘far right’ then making plans to freeze our grannies this winter just before scarpering out of the country on holiday as cities burn after all?

    *Boney M voice* Oh, those Russians…

  4. “We don’t deny that the country has millions of Islamic residents that nobody asked for, that Pakistani rape gangs have abused thousands of girls, that Islam is a malign political influence in the UK, that unskilled males from low-trust societies now hang around every market town and suburb, and that you are paying for the whole bloody shit-show. But really, you right-wing mugs, you’ve been misled by a foreign power as to what to do about it!”

  5. Riots: the reasons in full (© All MSM)

    1 – the far right
    2- social meedja
    3 – football hooligans
    4- ooh those Russians
    5 – Farage
    6 – that Tommy Robinson (it’s not his real name you know)
    7- dirty proles refusing to lie down and die as required

    (Maybe round off the list at an even six – ed)

  6. You forgot out of towners travelling the country instigating riots where ever they go Marius. Amazing coordination between these out of towners to create riots all at the same time. And to make the effort to go to different towns rather than do something local.

  7. It would be very niave to think that an enemy who is spending millions of dollars a day in Ukraine would not be spending money on promoting civil disturbance in the UK. The resentment is smouldering so they will strive to fan it to a roaring flame.

    The state has a duty to protect its citizens from the hostile actions of enemies. The rights of free speech accorded to English man should not extend to foreign enemies.

  8. The rights of free speech accorded to English man should not extend to foreign enemies.

    Says the Kremlin troll. (Prove you’re not!)

    The Kremlin has been promoting civil disturbance in the UK for decades – e.g. miners’ strike, just as the UK has in Russia.

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