The Cold War: False On Social Media

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Sweden military find out that NATO was encountered a unsettling problem like a flood of distorted and outright false informaton on social media, confusing a perceptions of the issue. Turns out all the information turn out to be false, but the information begun spilling into the transitional news media. Peter Hultqvist, as the defense minister of Sweden, traveled around the country to talk about the false information in town halls and meetings, but no one believe him. But now of the planting of the false stories is nothing new to the Soviet Union because the disinformation is an important aspect of Russian military. The inaccurate stories is so strong that both NATO and the Euporean Union have special offices to identify disinformation who believe it might come from the Russians. …show more content…
In Sweden recently, that has meant series of bizarre forged letters new articles about NATO and some links to Russia. One forgery, the Defense Ministry letterhead over Mr. Hultqvist signature, encouraged a major Swedish firm to sell artillery to Ukraine, a move that would be illegal in Sweden.They heavily invested in a program of "weaponized" information. But not all Russian disinformation succeed because Sputnik websites in various Scandinavian languages failed to attract enough readers and were closed after less than a year. Mainly Russia tried to sent false information to the Sweden people and general officers because Russia wanted to win the war between the two. Clearly Russia wanted to win any information war they sent. But at the end, the director of Sputnik made it clear of everything. No matter how bad the two countries get into it and want to start a war with each other, you can never trust

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