The narrative of “the Elites v the People” can be very successful, as it provides a scapegoat for the target audience to blame for any grievances: bankers, Big Corporations, Jews, oligarchs, Muslims, Brussels bureaucrats, you name it.
This week’s disinformation can be split into three categories: on geopolitics, geopolitical conspiracies and weird conspiracies. Underlying is the idea of a global elite secretly pulling the strings.
Pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets are attempting to create a world view, where Russia is described as surrounded by hostile forces, and that the Kremlin is the last bastion against a Globalist Elite, aiming for hegemony.
The negative views about the West will remain “until the country’s elites and its mass media become more pluralistic and free,” new study concludes.
