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# An early sign of Russia’s infowars
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2017/09/early-sign-russias-infowars/
- Published: 2017-09-27T21:14:57.000Z
- Updated: 2017-09-27T21:14:57.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: cyberattacks, Politics, russia, Social Media, trolling, world politics

I think we can safely file [this 2016 *New York Times* piece](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/world/europe/russia-finland-nato-trolls.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) under the “we should have taken this more seriously” category:

> But pro-Russian voices have become such a noisy and disruptive presence that both NATO and the European Union have set up special units to combat what they see as a growing threat not only to civil discourse but to the well-being of Europe’s democratic order and even to its security.
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> This “information war,” said Rastislav Kacer, a veteran diplomat who served as Slovakia’s ambassador to Washington and at NATO’s headquarters in Brussels, “is just part of a bigger struggle.” While not involving bloodshed, he added, it “is equally as dangerous as more conventional hostile action.”

Organised efforts to spread division within a country, coupled with attack on anyone investigating it? That seems familiar.