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== Vladimir's Putin's propaganda machine ==
== Vladimir's Putin's propaganda machine ==
[[File:Vladtheimpaler.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Vladimir Putin at an conference]]
Patryk Babiracki is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington indicates:
{{Cquote|Disinformation has long been a Russian strategy to manipulate its own citizens and to undermine U.S. democracy...
Yet President Vladimir Putin has found considerable success by waging a new version of the old propaganda war with the West. Russia’s global messaging today is nimbler, subtler and better funded, giving the Kremlin an edge in advancing its expansionist goals. But without the familiar ideological cues and division lines from the “first” Cold War, many Americans appear to have lowered their guard, accepting more nuanced, more pervasive Russian lies as just another point of view...
After his homeland’s humiliating defeat in the Cold War, Putin recognized that escalating and transforming the propaganda war is central to challenging U.S. dominance...
Under Putin, the Russian media has gained unprecedented power to spread global lies once again. But this time, news is free from the Marxist-Leninist logic and language, and it explicitly emulates Western journalism — both in appearance and the content of the news. Newscasters dress smartly and argue and schmooze with a panache their Soviet predecessors could have never matched...
Technology plays a key role. For instance, Moscow uses hired trolls and algorithms known as “bots” to replicate its message to the world. The news about immigration and terrorism that they amplify, to take one example, aims to undermine trust in the Western order by portraying the West as tottering on the edge of apocalypse.
More importantly, its content fits easily into the liberal-loathing echo chamber conservatives have created...
The Soviet government never dreamed that millions of patriotic Americans would read — and believe — Pravda. But as Russian-generated stories zip around the Internet and through conservative media circles, propaganda is proving to be an effective tool to undermine the values and cohesion of the West.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/09/13/why-americans-keep-falling-for-russian-propaganda/ Why Americans keep falling for Russian propaganda] by Patryk Babiracki</ref>}}
=== Videos on Vladimir's Putin's propaganda machine ===
''See also:'' [[Essay: Vladimir Putin is a corrupt kleptocrat and an authoritarian|Vladimir Putin is a corrupt kleptocrat and an authoritarian]]
''See also:'' [[Essay: Vladimir Putin is a corrupt kleptocrat and an authoritarian|Vladimir Putin is a corrupt kleptocrat and an authoritarian]]
The below videos provide information on Vladimir Putin's propaganda machine:
The below videos provide information on Vladimir Putin's propaganda machine:
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcyaFO4Sszc How Russian propaganda has been forced to evolve | It's Complicated]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m15M4VimuM The Pro-Kremlin Youth Group: Putin's Propaganda Machine]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m15M4VimuM The Pro-Kremlin Youth Group: Putin's Propaganda Machine]