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@stivvits1067 FYI, there are such things as US, Ukrainian, Israeli, UK, Canadian, Polish, etc trolls. They're literally paid by their governments to post propaganda in social media that's in favour of their governments, while attacking the opponents of their governments and their governments' policies. Troll farms were pioneered by Israel, the US, and Canada - not Russia.
Since 2011, the US government has budgeted $200 million per year for troll farms. And an official US gov't troll-farm contract that was published online showed that the US uses "sophisticated" technology to monitor and respond to online discussions in real time, and tag-team comments sections with multiple paid trolls at once, with each paid troll using multiple fake accounts and each of their fake accounts having their IPs disguised to appear as though they're posting from different places.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks
And over 35,000 Ukrainians signed-up for Ukraine's troll-farm program on the first day that it launched.
https://www.newsweek.com/35000-volunteers-sign-ukraines-information-army-first-day-310121
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Here's a partial review of Johnny's video that I posted in another comment: I would say that 80%+ of Johnny’s video is extremely-false information, and that it seems as though he started ‘researching’ just 2 weeks ago, and mostly just read some NYT articles (as an example of an outlet which never utters an honest word regarding anything related to Russia) and picked-up on some sneering anti-Putin conspiracy theories online, and then assumed he had it all worked out filled in the gaps with his imagination and put the concoction he’d come-up with into video form.
This isn't a matter of opinion and point-of-view, his video is primarily based in false ideas and narratives, of the sort that's inventive hearsay spread among sneering detractors. It’s largely opposite to the facts and is instead very sensationalist through sacrificing important facts.
Here are just a few examples of his ignorance or lies, whichever they may be.
Johnny claims that Navalny was arrested upon his return to Russia from recovering in Germany on "some old fake set of charges brought against him years ago that were thrown out later, they were totally fake". None of that is at-all true. The charges of embezzlement, brought by French cosmetics company Yves Rocher, were not fake and they weren't thrown-out - hence he had a suspended sentence. Navalny brought a complaint about the charges to the European Court of Human Rights, and the ECHR decided that the ruling against Navalny and his brother had been "arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable", but the ECHR didn't throw out the charges nor did they have the authority to. Additionally, the ECHR heard Navalny's appeal to have the charges construed as politically-motivated, but the ECHR dismissed Navalny's appeal of that. So, when he later calls Navalny's sentencing "politically-motivated", he's asserting something that wasn't deemed to be a confirmed fact by the ECHR.
He also says that the pretext for Navalny's arrest was that he violated his parole terms, and he adds, "Turns-out he couldn't report to parole, officers, because he was in a coma from being poisoned by the Russian government". That's a lie which I believe is absolutely impossible for him to not have known was a lie when he made his video, because Navalny only had to return and check-in with the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service by the end of his probation period, on December 29th. But Navalny was discharged from the German hospital on September 23rd. That's over 3 months of difference, where Navalny wasn't in a coma and wasn't hospitalized. Further, the German hospital made a report mid-December stating that Navalny had recovered - and that report was cited during his sentencing hearing to show that he was able to return and check-in despite him not doing so.
Not that Navalny needed to be reminded of his parole terms for it to be legally binding, he's an adult who is responsible for himself and not a child, but Russia's Penitentiary Service did give him a last-minute warning that he had to return to make the final check-in otherwise he would be arrested upon his return to Russia. For the 4 months he'd been away in Germany, including all the time he was in a coma and for a very long time after that, Navalny's not-checking-in twice a month as his parole conditions required wasn't held against him and was never even mentioned as leverage against him in any way.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service could have required Navalny to return to Russia sooner, but the only check-in Navalny was absolutely required to do was the final one, by December 29th. Navalny knew that, but he chose to stay in Germany for 2.5 weeks beyond that date.
Do you know what happens in the US when you skip probation and violate the terms of a suspended sentence? You're arrested and your suspended sentence is changed into a prison sentence. And as Navalny is a high-profile person, any exception made for him (and I don't know why he'd get an exception in this case beyond the unofficial exemption from having to check-in while he was recovering in Germany) would affect Russia's prison authority's ability to apply their rules to others.
Just some select other issues I have with his video are these, though there are also others that I'm not listing here:
His video doesn't mention the corruption scandals Navalny has been embroiled in, his racism and fierce xenophobia, the fact that 5,000 or a few times that number of protesters, and around 1,000 protesters arrested in the Moscow metropolitan area, the population of which is over 20 million, is statistically insignificant, or that Navalny's top aide was recorded seeking $20 million in funding from UK spies offering billions of 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' payback when Navalny becomes Russia's president - which has been a serious goal of Navalny's even though Johnny downplayed it in his video.
What he said about Novichok, who has developed it, the idea that it's a signature, is also 100% false and more of a cartoonish kind of an imaginative narrative. Many countries, including the US, UK, Czech, Iran, and others, have made Novichok, and the US took over the USSR's supplies of Novichok in 1991 when the US was responsible for the dismantling of the USSR's Uzbekistan chemical facilities where Novichok was made and stored. The US showed interest in patenting weaponized Novichok in 2015, and held discussions with Russia on the matter. The method to create Novichok was put into a book by its creator that is publicly available and can be purchased through Amazon. Novichok is not prohibitively difficult to make and the former head of the OPCW and many chemical experts have refuted the claim otherwise. I could expand a huge amount on this topic alone in a standalone post.
Bluntly, his video is either horrendously under-researched, or it's lying and deliberate propaganda. I'm shocked by the number of false claims and deferrals to conspiracy theories and cartoon visions that are contained in it. This isn't something anyone who considers themselves to be a journalist should be doing. And it certainly isn’t anything worth praising. The fact that it is convincing people of complete falsehoods makes it all the worse.
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I would say that 80%+ of Johnny’s video is extremely-false information, and that it seems as though he started ‘researching’ just 2 weeks ago, and mostly just read some NYT articles (as an example of an outlet which never utters an honest word regarding anything related to Russia) and picked-up on some sneering anti-Putin conspiracy theories online, and then assumed he had it all worked out filled in the gaps with his imagination and put the concoction he’d come-up with into video form.
This isn't a matter of opinion and point-of-view, his video is primarily based in false ideas and narratives, of the sort that's inventive hearsay spread among sneering detractors. It’s largely opposite to the facts and is instead very sensationalist through sacrificing important facts.
Here are just a few examples of his ignorance or lies, whichever they may be.
Johnny claims that Navalny was arrested upon his return to Russia from recovering in Germany on "some old fake set of charges brought against him years ago that were thrown out later, they were totally fake". None of that is at-all true. The charges of embezzlement, brought by French cosmetics company Yves Rocher, were not fake and they weren't thrown-out - hence he had a suspended sentence. Navalny brought a complaint about the charges to the European Court of Human Rights, and the ECHR decided that the ruling against Navalny and his brother had been "arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable", but the ECHR didn't throw out the charges nor did they have the authority to. Additionally, the ECHR heard Navalny's appeal to have the charges construed as politically-motivated, but the ECHR dismissed Navalny's appeal of that. So, when he later calls Navalny's sentencing "politically-motivated", he's asserting something that wasn't deemed to be the case by the ECHR.
He also says that the pretext for Navalny's arrest was that he violated his parole terms, and he adds, "Turns-out he couldn't report to parole, officers, because he was in a coma from being poisoned by the Russian government". That's a lie which I believe is absolutely impossible for him to not have known was a lie when he made his video, because Navalny only had to return and check-in with the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service by the end of his probation period, on December 29th. But Navalny was discharged from the German hospital on September 23rd. That's over 3 months of difference, where Navalny wasn't in a coma and wasn't hospitalized. Further, the German hospital made a report mid-December stating that Navalny had recovered - and that report was cited during his sentencing hearing to show that he was able to return and check-in despite him not doing so.
Not that Navalny needed to be reminded of his parole terms for it to be legally binding, he's an adult who is responsible for himself and not a child, but Russia's Penitentiary Service did give him a last-minute warning that he had to return to make the final check-in otherwise he would be arrested upon his return to Russia. For the 4 months he'd been away in Germany, including all the time he was in a coma and for a very long time after that, Navalny's not-checking-in twice a month as his parole conditions required wasn't held against him and was never even mentioned as leverage against him in any way.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service could have required Navalny to return to Russia sooner, but the only check-in Navalny was absolutely required to do was the final one, by December 29th. Navalny knew that, but he chose to stay in Germany for 2.5 weeks beyond that date.
Do you know what happens in the US when you skip probation and violate the terms of a suspended sentence? You're arrested and your suspended sentence is changed into a prison sentence. And as Navalny is a high-profile person, any exception made for him (and I don't know why he'd get an exception in this case beyond the unofficial exemption from having to check-in while he was recovering in Germany) would affect Russia's prison authority's ability to apply their rules to others.
Just some select other issues I have with his video are these, though there are also others that I'm not listing here:
His video doesn't mention the corruption scandals Navalny has been embroiled in, his racism and fierce xenophobia, the fact that 5,000 or a few times that number of protesters, and around 1,000 protesters arrested in the Moscow metropolitan area, the population of which is over 20 million, is statistically insignificant, or that Navalny's top aide was recorded seeking $20 million in funding from UK spies offering billions of 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' payback when Navalny becomes Russia's president - which has been a serious goal of Navalny's even though Johnny downplayed it in his video.
What he said about Novichok, who has developed it, the idea that it's a signature, is also 100% false and more of a cartoonish kind of an imaginative narrative. Many countries, including the US, UK, Czech, Iran, and others, have made Novichok, and the US took over the USSR's supplies of Novichok in 1991 when the US was responsible for the dismantling of the USSR's Uzbekistan chemical facilities where Novichok was made and stored. The US showed interest in patenting weaponized Novichok in 2015, and held discussions with Russia on the matter. The method to create Novichok was put into a book by its creator that is publicly available and can be purchased through Amazon. Novichok is not prohibitively difficult to make and the former head of the OPCW and many chemical experts have refuted the claim otherwise. I could expand a huge amount on this topic alone in a standalone post.
Bluntly, his video is either horrendously under-researched, or it's lying and deliberate propaganda. I'm shocked by the number of false claims and deferrals to conspiracy theories and cartoon visions that are contained in it. This isn't something anyone who considers themselves to be a journalist should be doing. And it certainly isn’t anything worth praising. The fact that it is convincing people of complete falsehoods makes it all the worse.
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