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.
Many of the people that Russia is targeting with their disinformation are the same people that were worried about Russians in the 80s.
Don’t know if this will work, it’s possible nothing can get through to them. But for the simpletons that are susceptible to disinformation you really need to dumb things down for them.
RUSSIA DO BAD THING ON INTERNET. DON’T TRUST INTERNET.
Maybe a couple of neurons will fire and they might question things they see on the internet a little. Sometimes.
Probably not, but it’s worth a shot.