NATO is preparing a draft strategy against the Kremlin propaganda – Reuters reports. The Alliance wants to oppose “the use of information as a weapon” to support activities such as the annexation of the Crimea in 2014. It is the expectation that the new policy will be NATO in this regard will be approved at the Warsaw summit.
NATO and the European Union are concerned about the ability of Russia to distribute deliberate misinformation by television and the Internet. The premise of NATO project whose initial version has seen a journalist Reuters, is to influence public opinion abroad and making “strategic narrative” to counter “anti-narratives.”
Just do not overdo it with propaganda
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According to Reuters, this approach supports the United Kingdom and other NATO countries, but the United States wary about any strategy that could be interpreted as a simple propaganda.
NATO officials stress that the credibility of the Alliance depends on its openness and truthfulness. – One of the main principles of NATO is that we can not counter the propaganda, reaching for yet more propaganda – said a spokeswoman for the Alliance Oana Lungescu.
Reuters notes that Russia has invested in a modern media organization with hundreds of journalists abroad , intending to distract the world from – as it is called – aggressive Western propaganda. Medium was called Sputnik. It is also currently very active on the Internet and on social networks such as Twitter.
A new policy at the summit in Warsaw?
contained in the draft proposals provide inter alia that NATO could quickly odtajniać visual materials to support its warnings against threats, and also provide more information on social media.
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– They (Russians – ed.) can create virtual reality to confuse and achieve specific goals – pointed to one Western diplomat. Reuters notes that NATO is no longer a strategic communications department, its own channel on YouTube, increased presence in social media and aroused to respond to media inquiries.
Some believe, however, that is not enough. Reuters highlights, discussing a draft proposal for NATO that the communication strategy includes coordinating the various means of informing the media and the public, as well as the so-called. psychological operations to influence public opinion, to build support for their own operations and their own policy.
Negotiations on the new policy may have started before the July NATO summit in Warsaw. The Agency adds that some are hopeful that this new policy will be on the Warsaw summit approved.
Author: mk // rzw / PAP
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