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"Mapping a Surge of Disinformation in Africa" (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Source is this https://africacenter.org/spotlight/mapping-a-surge-of-disinformation-in-africa/

I tried to look it up to see if the U.S. is in the details I didn't have to look far because the first thing you'll find searching them up is:

The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) is self-described as "a U.S. Department of Defense institution established and funded by Congress for the study of security issues relating to Africa and serving as a forum for bilateral and multilateral research, communication, and exchange of ideas involving military and civilian participants."

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Low how it's Kremlin and CCP. Not Moscow and Beijing or even Kremlin and Beijing.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

Metonymy will continue until dehumanization is achieved

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

or the Kremlin and the Great Hall of the People

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago

Maybe they should have laws requiring the disclosure of foreign funding in NGOs.

blinken-pain "No, not like that."

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This board game sucks, I'm tired of worker placement

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

The US better hope China or Russia don't have the Africa scoring card rn

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Africa Centre for Strategic Studies

300 5th Avenue, Building 20, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, DC

Seems reasonable

Edit: I read slightly further

The Africa Center is an academic institution within the U.S. Department of Defense

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's literally the most propaganda of propaganda saying Russia and China are doing propaganda

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

They've gotten so lazy lately, all they have to do is call anything they don't like "Russian/Chinese propaganda" and people fall for it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Not a single African actually works there

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

Cool, now point out all the places that have US military basesblob-no-thoughts

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

'other foreign actors'

columbo

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago

I love how “disinformation” now just means “information I don’t like”

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

It's all nonsense so I'm actually surprised that every country doesn't have at least one dot indicating disinformation actors. The CIA could tweet "The US is militaristic..." from a IP it controls in Cameroon and - there you go - a dot!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the 'other or undetermined' actor in algeria is you specifically rania thonk

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

🫣

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Domestic political actors? By definition you could slap this one on every single country on earth

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

i cant believe these african countries have their own domestic politics, that shouldnt be allowed freedom-and-democracy

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Here's one they listed

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

The audacity

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Even if the content was remotely useful, this is a terrible visualization.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fascinating how none of these maps ever have the US or literally any european countries on them.

Are we to believe that those states AREN'T engaging in propaganda and psyops campaigns abroad?

The word "disinformation" itself is clearly a shibboleth. Used solely by the nato countries to refer to the propaganda and psyops efforts of their enemies but never to themselves.

This map itself is disinformation.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

none of these maps ever have the US or literally any european countries on them.

I think the worst part is Americans and Europeans actually believe their own spy agencies aren't...well....spying. Every country on the planet has spies. Some of them are more disruptive than others (CIA, MI5/6, and Mossad being prime examples). We spy on other people, they spy on us.

Even in the private sector, companies spy on one another. There's money to be made and lost. Of course they're going to run disinformation campaigns about other companies (this is like 99% of advertising). And they have people leaking company secrets a.k.a. insider trading.

But no. It's totally only the bad countries who spy on other people. We totally don't have an entire department that's a monetary black hole doing evil shit.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Nice argument, unfortunately I've already drawn you as disinformation in the Chad

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

please Xi, South Africa yearns for poverty alleviation, high-speed rail and Dongfeng-41 missiles.

Also whatever happened to South Africa "being a puppet state of ISIS, Iran and Hamas"? Did the collapse of the Mossad cell in Johannesburg cause a shortage of diapers to steal from the luggage at the airport? L

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

My message to the Honorable President Xi and to the russian guy: Let's get those numbers up!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Absolutely zero disinformation or "actors" from Burgerland, though. Not a one. fedposting

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

trans-african campaigns bridget-pride around-the-cape

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Mr President, we cannot allow a posting gap.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Lol, did they forget they're supposed to launder that shit through the NED?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You mean to tell me that the shape of chad is the shape of the actual country?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

did you also notice that Djibouti looks like a booty?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

good god it's twerking

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Whats the saying? "When China visits we get a hospital, when the west visits we get a lecture"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

RAND's (state affiliated org) 'Firehose of Disinformation' is some similar shite. I looked at their definition of that concept (that they only apply to Russia) and it could only be perfectly applied to American private media.