REGISTRATION: Bette’s Happy Hour with Dietmar Pichler on Leaked Names of Russian Propagandists
REGISTRATION: Bette’s Happy Hour with Dietmar Pichler on Leaked Names of Russian Propagandists
Please register for our Happy Hour on Tues., Sept. 24, noon Pacific, as disinformation analyst Dietmar Pichler joins us with an update on leaks of names of pro-Russian influencers
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Welcome to new members and a heartfelt thank you to all of you renewing at the full annual rate and beyond. I needed to carve out some time this week to delve into historic research and the gifts of your renewals and additional donations of support gave me that space to work on what I believe is important framing for the fight ahead.
About a third of you read the report above. I need all of you to read it and to please share it with your networks. Our media does a terrible job of historic framing, and it’s vital to understand the playbook being used to wage war on democracy is not only cruel but very effective.
I’m not sugarcoating any of this with hopium. We can only win by fully defeating fascism, again. Half measures will not work. We need a resounding defeat. In 2024, there should be no normalizing or acceptance of ugly racist narratives. The GOP in its desperate hour will have no choice but to ratchet up the ugly, as we witnessed in Trump’s rhetoric from yesterday. And we know GOP operatives are already cheating — as Anne Nelson pointed out, a half million voters were purged from the rolls in Oklahoma. That’s just one example. Those already cheating should have the full force of the law thrown at them, and that includes criminal members of the Supreme Court.
We need to put a premium on decency and empathy, and those spewing Nazi themes should be shunned and thoroughly defeated.
That is our mission.
To help with this, we are bringing back our friend from Austria, Dietmar Pichler, who knows a thing or two about where fascist rhetoric leads.
Tuesday at noon Pacific, information analyst Dietmar Pichler is joining us to offer an update on leaked names from internal Russian video highlighting some pro-Kremlin influencers. Unsurprising to see Glenn Greenwald, Kari Lake and KimDotCom among them, prompting me to write this post on Twitter:
With KimDotcom appearing in leaked video meant for internal use of “Russian Ideological Troops” — worth noting Elon Musk interacted with him multiple times, just like he boosted Tenet Media — a Russian-funded operation.
Is it still free speech if Russia is paying for it? 🤡🇷🇺
Shoutout to 5GW Hot Takes for slowing down the video so it was easier to see who was posting Russian propaganda, and shoutout to High Fidelity, my podcast partner, who gave me the gift of this terrific line: “Is it still free speech if Russia is paying for it?” I have tagged X/Twitter’s CEO and Musk over and over again with that line, since they have left up all the video content from the Tenet Media operation, which was funded with ten million dollars from RT employees linked to Russian military intelligence.
As the US State Department told us last week: Russian covert influence activities are not journalism, but Musk already knows that.
I am looking forward to a vibrant chat about the latest breakers on Russian influence, and I am asking those of you planning to attend to already think about how we raise awareness to the folks lost in the fog. Millions of Americans have become superspreaders of Russian propaganda, duped into thinking they’re posting messaging by US patriots. The entire country is blanketed with information warfare, and we have to acknowledge and reverse.
Details for our Happy Hour here:
Tuesday, September 24 — Bette’s Happy Hour with Dietmar Pichler, 12 pm PT/3 pm ET
Dietmar Pichler is a Vienna-based disinformation researcher, media literacy educator, and the founder of Disinfo Resilience Network. Please have a listen to RadPod’s interview with Dietmar here.
To support Dietmar’s Building Resilience Against Dictator Propaganda project, please go here.
Happy Hours are open to all levels of membership, and we look forward to meeting new members!
Here are some recent Bette podcast interviews with Dietmar:
Thank you everyone for your support of my work, and thank you to each of you helping grow this vibrant, pro-democracy network.
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Hello Bette Members! 🤍
You are invited to Bette’s Happy Hour zoom event with special guest Dietmar Pichler!
When: Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 12 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Thank you so much!
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