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Podcast: Threatscape - Mapping global risks in a changing world
Episode: The Power of Propaganda: A Family Torn Apart by Russian Disinformation
Description: In this episode, a Russian Montrealer explains why he decided to help Ukrainians in the war against his home country. In the meantime, his family in Moscow thinks he is brainwashed by Western media and refuses to believe that they may have been duped by Russia’s disinformation campaign.
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Episode 3 of a 3-part series produced in collaboration with Concordia’s Department of Journalism.Â
Speaker:
Dmitri Tcherkasski, a pro-Ukrainian supporter in Montreal originally from Moscow, Russia
Sources: Aeon, Eurasianet, PublicO (MediaScope), Russian Field, Statista (Levada Center),StopFake.org, The New Yorker...