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A new CSIS ad campaign is using Soviet-style imagery to warn Canadians about disinformation (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Aaron Erlich, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal, said it's important to make people aware of misleading information online. But he said the wording in the CSIS campaign was "not the most straightforward" and appeared to be an attempt not just to educate but to invoke fear.

Erlich said clumsy messaging can backfire, and he would like to know if the messaging was tested at all to see how it would be received.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's topical and I'm glad they're being direct about it. Any more direct and it would have just been Putin's face with a speech bubble. Unfortunate that the used Russian cultural themes but eh, it is what it is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The Soviet Union is dead and gone. What this makes me think is that our spy agency is headed by someone old and out of touch with what disinformation looks like these days. Some cold warrior who hasn't taken in any new information in 30 years.

[edit] I got kinda curious about this so I looked it up. The head of CSIS is David Vigneault.

In his first public speech since he was appointed Director, he named Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos and Venezuela as "countries of concern"

Do you sense a theme? No Iran? No Saudi Arabia? They threatened us with our own 9/11.

Tell me this guy doesn't seem like he's living in 1950.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What about that particular poster makes you think of the Soviet Union?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The Soviet aesthetic.