Human wrongs: How state-backed media helped the Kremlin weaponise social conservatism
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Paper by Journalist Fellow
Russians themselves are the biggest victims of their government’s propaganda and misinformation campaigns. Journalist fellow Daria Litvinova looks at the history of Russian propaganda and writes a deeply personal account of how her country’s media has struggled to deal with Vladimir Putin and his narrative of Russian values under attack from the West.
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