I didn't mean Canada specifically, of course. I meant in western societies in general. I just meant that.... Look, Russia is extremely good. This is not your grandfather's Cold War and ham-fisted Soviet propaganda that we're seeing in western societies.
There's a very good RAND Corporation report from 2016 called the “Firehose of Falsehood”. It talks about Russian misinformation. It talks about four characteristics: It's high volume, it's multichannel and it has no commitment to consistency and no commitment to objective truth.
The idea is that Russia is not trying to get the western public to build a positive image of Russia, to agree with the Russian position or to think that Russia is telling the truth; it's trying to undermine the idea of objective truth altogether and have the western public believe that all governments lie all of the time and that therefore what my government says is no more legitimate than what comes out of the Kremlin. It takes critical thinking skills to disentangle what is objective truth, which does still exist, from what is not truth.
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