{"id":27869,"date":"2017-11-11T14:44:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T19:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27869"},"modified":"2017-11-11T14:44:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T19:44:43","slug":"spanish-government-blames-russian-dezinformatsiya-campaign-for-catalan-uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27869","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Government Blames Russian “Dezinformatsiya” Campaign For Catalan Uprising"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spanish Government Blames Russian “Dezinformatsiya” Campaign For Catalan Uprising<\/a><\/h3>\n
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No, not The Onion…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In what is perhaps the least surprising tactic from the Spanish establishment, a government-backed research institute in Madrid has stated that Spain\u2019s struggle to quash separatism in its Catalonia region was disrupted by Russian hackers agitating for a break-up, in a hallmark propaganda effort to fracture Europe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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As Bloomberg reports,<\/em><\/a> the unidentified Russians spread both true and false messages on Facebook and Twitter during the illegal separatist referendum<\/strong> on Oct. 1, according to Mira Milosevich, a senior analyst at the Elcano Royal Institute.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0\u201cdezinformatsiya\u201d campaign deployed trolls, bots and fake accounts, and was backed by intense coverage from Russia\u2019s state-supported television, she said<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia has a nationalist agenda, and it supports nationalist, populist movements in Europe because that serves to divide Europe,\u201d<\/strong> Milosevich said Wednesday in an interview.<\/p>\n

The researcher had just published an article building on a Sept. 25 El Pais newspaper report<\/a>\u00a0that linked fake news on Catalonia with allegations of Russian influence in the Brexit campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elcano is part-funded by the Spanish government <\/strong>and its board\u2019s honorary chairman is King Felipe VI.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Milosevich further claims that the most significant comments spread on Twitter and Facebook came from WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange and government-secrets leaker Edward Snowden,<\/strong> Milosevich said, particularly that the \u201cbanana republic\u201d of Spain used violence to suffocate a democratic vote.<\/p>\n

For his Twitter profile photo, Assange is using a\u00a0shot<\/a>\u00a0of Spanish riot police, clad in black protective gear, with one of them swinging his baton.<\/p>\n

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Spanish Government Blames Russian “Dezinformatsiya” Campaign For Catalan Uprising No, not The Onion… In what is perhaps the least surprising tactic from the Spanish establishment, a government-backed research institute in Madrid has stated that Spain\u2019s struggle to quash separatism in its Catalonia region was disrupted by Russian hackers agitating for a break-up, in a hallmark […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[117,968,694,743,4318],"class_list":["post-27869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-catalonia","tag-independence","tag-russia","tag-spain","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27870,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27869\/revisions\/27870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}