While it must take a good deal of creativity to be able to produce dozens of different disinformation narratives about the Salisbury incident, it would seem almost impossible to provide some justification for the tactics of spreading multiple disinformation narratives.
“British authorities are trying to ridicule Russia for spreading 30 versions of what happened [in the Skripal poisoning case]. Yes, there are many explanations for lack of facts and evidence, but in Russia everyone just wants to understand this murky story”.
This was the message delivered earlier this week by Russia’s representative at the United Nations Security Council. “Kafka is spinning in his grave“, Konstantin Eggert, a news host and commentator from the independent Russian TV Rain (Dozhd’), commented on his Twitter account, EUvsDisinformaion task force reports.
While it must take a good deal of creativity to be able to produce dozens of different disinformation narratives about the Salisbury incident, it would seem almost impossible to provide some justification for the tactics of spreading multiple disinformation narratives with the aim to confuse and distract; but now we know the Kremlin’s line to take: It is in fact a sign of Russian truth-seeking.
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