China, Russia and Iran play cooperatively in information war criticizing the United States

China, Russia and Iran play cooperatively in information war criticizing the United States

Enemy's enemy is ally, spreading American criticism on the net

With regard to the anti-racism demonstration expanding in the United States, the "virtual enemy nation" of the United States has been criticizing the United States on the net just about here. In particular, these are China, Russia, and Iran.

 In this case, China is sending out information that impresses the dual standard of criticizing China in the Hong Kong issue as "hypocrisy" while the US suppresses demonstrations in its own country. China is currently being strongly criticized by the international community for the Hong Kong issue, but the aim is to deviate the point of such criticism.

 In China's corona problem, it is known that inflammatory information transmission that undermines the credibility of the U.S. government is being spread on SNS by making full use of bot accounts created for mass diffusion. For this anti-racism demonstration, he probably thinks that he could sufficiently fuel the division of American society without doing such a trick. It seems that they are almost focused on spreading information about the demo mayhem rather than fake information work.

Russia criticizes all sides of the world and fuels fragmentation of American society

First of all, what is remarkable in Russia is the movement to incite both the protesters and opponents of the US demonstration.

 For example, the Putin administration's advertising media "Sputnik" announced on June 1 that American society was built on violence and racism, and the white supremacist terrorism was not called terrorism, and anti-racist terrorists It pointed out that it is unusual country called, to curse Trump president that it is racist article was posted.

 In addition, the site "The USA Really" related to the Internet research agency "Internet research agency" of the Putin administration, which is operated by funds of the Russian government media and is known for large-scale fake SNS work at the 2016 US presidential election “On the same day,” he posted an article that criticized President Trump as “a coward who had fled to the underground bunker of the White House during the demonstration .”

 Not just online media. The Russian government itself has no hesitation in criticizing the United States. For example, the Russian embassy in the United States accused US police of attacking and repressing media reports on June 1 on official Twitter . In Russia's home country, assassinations and perishable deaths of reporters critical of the Putin administration have frequently occurred, but such a thing is a strong accusation.

 Thinking of attacking the U.S. government and President Trump in this way, on the other hand, another advertising medium " RT " on the same day "is inciting violence and trying to use the demonstration riot to the Democratic party's advantage", Obama I blame the former president. By blaming in all directions, it will stimulate the division of American society and impress the superiority of Russian society. In addition, the RT, especially in Spanish, has mass produced aggressive articles highlighting racism in the United States. This has the effect of inciting Hispanics in the United States.

he Russian government media is also spreading the apparently fake conspiracy theory. For example, in the news discussion program " 60 Minutes " on the Russian state television "Russia 24" on June 1, the following conspiracy theory was presented.

 "Color Revolution," which was once set up in the former Soviet sphere by the Obama administration, and is a behind-the-scenes work of the US Democratic Party aiming for the collapse of the Trump administration. It's no coincidence that it expanded in the Democratic state.

 Alternatively, the news media “ News Front ” , a pro-Putin news media , distributed a conspiracy theory on the same day, saying, “A former Ukrainian military officer made a tank lorry thrust into the crowd in Minneapolis. It was a terrorism designed to make the situation worse.” ..

 The blame is not limited to the Trump administration and its opposition, the US Democratic Party.

 The above-mentioned Sputnik published an article on June 1 stating that the international human rights group "Human Rights Watch" was "silent for a week" after the Minneapolis police officer killed an African American civilian .

 Of course, Human Rights Watch has been pointing out this problem on its website and Twitter since the beginning, but it seems that it didn't write the real name of the victim. Sputnik gave up just that, and made a fake publicity saying that he was "silent despite the human rights groups." It is clear that this is in return for the group's long-standing criticism of Russia's widespread suppression of human rights both at home and abroad.

Mass-production of English articles to promote public relations to the outside world

Not only in these government media, but in Russia, many online articles were written that referred to the terrorism in the United States. However, the Russian government's scrutiny of Russian internet media is strong, and many of these

 online articles strongly reflect the intentions of the Russian authorities.

 Moreover, even though they are online articles created in Russia, there are many English articles in addition to Russian. For example, the June 4th report of the Digital Forensic Research Institute (DFRLab), an Internet information research institute of the United States think tank "Atlantic Council" according to by the , from May 27th to June 3rd, Of the online articles created and transmitted, I examined articles including the name of the victim ``George Floyd'' killed by the Minneapolis City police officer, and found that there were 1544 articles in Russian and 1107 articles in English. It was said. About two-thirds of their native language is published in English.

According to the same survey, English articles account for about one-third of Chinese articles in China and only one-fifth of Persian articles in Iran. Compared to them, the proportion of English articles written in Russia is quite high. It can be said that the company is focusing more on external advertising activities than it is for Russia.

 Then, how about fake information work on the Internet using SNS that Russia is good at?

 In fact, the above-mentioned Russian Internet secret agency, Internet Research Agency, has continued to instinctively focus on the US anti-racism movement, especially the Black Lives Matter movement, from 2014 to 2017. I know it was. By amplifying the anger of African Americans, they aimed to divide American society.

 However, with respect to the expansion of this anti-racism demonstration, there are almost no traces of fake operations on the Internet such as using a lot of spoof accounts at this time. This point is similar to the Chinese work, but it seems that even without doing such a back work, it is enough at this stage to instinctively incline the United States.