🧵 Of articles I've found useful in understanding the nexus between #propaganda #disinformation #semanticoperations #uncivilsociety actors & authoritarian backlash.
Most of them tackle the issue of liberal bias in norm literature.
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1. Daniëlle Flonk, Emerging illiberal norms: Russia and China as promoters of internet content control
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/97/6/1925/6412472
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So, once you understand that authoritarian #semanticoperations are not so much about sophistication, but legitimacy and wielding power, you get that #Prigozhin "fessing up" to #electioninterference and his "sloppy" operations are not the lead subject here.
What we maybe should be looking at is how, despite his sloppiness and deviancy, he still manages to live in our heads rent-free.
Stephanie Lamy