American media outlets are trying to make Russians rebel at Washington’s behest, the Foreign Intelligence Service has claimed © Getty Images / Kiyoshi Tanno
US authorities are urging the country’s media outlets to propagate falsehoods about Russia in a bid to undermine its stability amid the ongoing stand-off between Moscow and the West, the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has claimed.
In a statement on Monday, the agency quoted its director, Sergey Naryshkin, as saying that “the US State Department … basically dictates to the American media what exactly they should write and say,” adding that it “has finally turned into the ‘Ministry of Truth’.”
The comment was an apparent reference to the fictional ministry tasked with falsifying historical events from George Orwell’s world-renowned dystopian novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’.
The SVR, citing intelligence data, claimed that last month the department sent instructions to several major media holdings, including AT&T, Comcast Corporation, Graham Media Group, Nash Holdings, Newsweek Publishing and The New York Times Company, telling them to “reflect events in and around Russia in a distorted manner.”
According to the agency, these outlets were tasked with convincing Russian citizens that there was a need for a “forceful struggle against the authorities, up to an armed rebellion.”
They also wanted to “involve the population in protest actions” by “actively circulating falsehoods” about Russia’s purported weakness and its “inevitable defeat in the stand-off with the West,” the statement read.
To achieve this goal, Washington has told media organizations to focus on packaging certain narratives to young Russians, as well as hailing Russian opposition figures and other nationals engaged “in sabotage and terrorist actions” against Moscow as heroes, the agency claimed.
“There is nothing new in freedom of speech being trampled on in the West. It is unfortunate that the State Department, which used to be a sober-minded and rational agency … has turned into a stinking landfill of informational garbage,” the SVR added.
The statement comes after Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov predicted in April that the level of “external interference” into Russia’s domestic affairs would only grow amid the Ukraine conflict. He also suggested that the West would be interested in derailing Russia’s presidential elections, which are scheduled for March 2024. (RT)
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What else should be expected from an agency headed by (((Anthony “Johnnycakes” Blinken))) and (((Victoria “Jabba the Hutt” Nuland)))?
When will Russia expel the US ambassador and recall its own ambassador?
The Most Massive Attack Against Free Speech in United States History
Sometime since January 2021, Biden administration policymakers decided that they were infallible—or a “close enough for government work” level of infallible. They claimed a divine right to suppress the online posts and comments of conservatives and anyone else who had a bad attitude towards federal power. That party ended on July 4 when federal judge Terry Doughty condemned the Biden censorship regime as potentially “the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.”…
The Biden censorship deluge was spurred by one of the greatest bureaucratic bait-and-switches in Washington history. After allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Act (CISA) was created to protect against foreign meddling. Prior to Biden taking office, CISA had a “Countering Foreign Influence Task Force.” But in 2021, that was renamed the “Mis, Dis and Malinformation Team (‘MDM Team’).” But all the targets of federal censorship during the Biden era have been Americans…
CISA is entitling itself to control American’s minds. A CISA advisory committee last year issued a report which “broadened ‘infrastructure’ to include ‘the spread of false and misleading information because it poses a significant risk to critical function, like elections, public health, financial services and emergency responses.’” Thus, any idea that government officials label as “misleading” is a “significant risk” the feds can suppress.
On November 21, 2021, CISA Director Jen Easterly stated, “We live in a world where people talk about alternative facts, post-truth, which I think is really, really dangerous if people get to pick their own facts.” Judge Doughty retorted, “The Free Speech Clause was enacted to prohibit just what Director Easterly is wanting to do: allow the government to pick what is true and what is false.” As former State Department official Mike Benz warned, “DHS is carrying out an official state policy that if public trust is not earned, it must be installed…The U.S. government, in effect, censored the ability to ‘cast doubt’ on the U.S. government.”
It gets worse. Where did CISA find the absolute truths it used to censor American citizens? CISA simply asked government officials and “apparently always assumed the government official was a reliable source,” the court decision noted. Any assertion by officialdom was close enough to a Delphic oracle for CISA to use to “debunk postings” by private citizens.
“Government = truth” is the premise for the Biden censorship regime.
The Yew Ess Ay’s Stayt Department will say and do whatever its overlords tell it to do not the other way around.
As I understand it those orders are coming from the Obama residence.
“As I understand it those orders are coming from the Obama residence.”
Tell me your an idiot without stating so. Bingo.
Obama was/is a puppet, puppets don’t pull the strings. The only thing Obozo did was be a hand puppet, someone’s hand up his ass that is…
3 words…Valerie Fucking Jarrett.
Care to comment?
Also…whatever happened to Cass Sunstein? It’s like that cock sucker fell off the edge of the Earth.
These are a couple of the people you’re not supposed to remember. There are many others.
He’s just another turd in the bowl … as the israeli leadership has been telling — bragging about — US for the past 60 years, they control the Congress of the United States.
What do you think all of those trips to israel every year are about?
And thank God for that fiber optic cable from israel to D.C. …
Be a real shame if something happened to that, wouldn’t it?
to quote private Pyle: Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!
Beginning in 1947.