244. Grigor Atanesian - Putin Believes the Digital Information Space is a Battlefield - That We're at war

GUEST: Grigor Atanesian - investigative journalist at the BBC.
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INTRO:
Vladimir Putin believes that the digital information space is a
battlefield, yet we in the West are perhaps late to realise that fact.
The rise of the internet in the 21st century has been accompanied by
unprecedented levels of polarisation, division, and coercion. At the
same time democracies are being hit by a huge range of different, and
rapidly evolving hostile state activities. Not all of them have their
origins in Russia, though clearly many do, and the scale of the threat
is only likely to increase in future.

#ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war
#disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #ussr

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SPEAKER:
Grigor Atanesian is an investigative journalist with the BBC. He was
producer for the “Trauma Zone” documentary series by Adam Curtis (BBC
Film), and the Associate Producer for “Can't Get You Out of My Head”
documentary series by Adam Curtis (BBC Film). As part of the team that
created the unique and powerful 'Trauma Zone' BBC documentary, he was
awarded a BAFTA for Specialist Factual programmes in 2023.
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LINKS:

Putin’s Influencers: The bloggers selling Russia’s War - BBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_8tYjsFKFw

Russian pro-war influencers are generating big advertising revenues from
their social media coverage of the conflict, the BBC’s Global
Disinformation Team has found. Known in Russia as “Z Bloggers”, they
spread fake news about the war by embedding with military units, sharing
exclusive footage from the frontline, and calling upon young Russians
to enlist in the army.

Graphics: Kako Abraham
Film Editor: Ismail Guluev
Narrator: Jack Goodman
Assistant Producers: Sucheera Maguire, Jake Tacchi
Editor: Juliana Gragnani
Executive Editor: Rebecca Skippage
Written & Produced by: Grigor Atanesian

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