Russia Today has spent much of the pandemic amplifying anti-vaccine activists in the West. You will be shocked to learn that this has backfired at home. https://t.co/UceUoVcwrJ

— Meduza in English (@meduza_en) November 11, 2021

Very good article on Russian COVID propaganda. The Russian state media (that is, the Russian government) is trying to do two things: get Russians to vaccinate, and the West to stop. So, they flood their domestic Russian language outlets with anti-anti-vax stories, but at the same time flood their German and English language outlets with anti-vax conspiracy propaganda.

It. Doesn’t. Work. Russians translate the German and English stuff back into Russian and circulate it around on Telegram, and believe that because that’s the Stuff They Don’t Want You To See. The Russian elite is full of fucking morons.