The Foundational Anecdote

In 2015 I met a woman in a village near Russia-occupied eastern Ukraine. She told me that her sister in St Petersburg, Russia wouldn’t believe her when she told her that Ukraine was a free country whose government was not committing Genocide.

Source: Disinfolklore (2)

She and her sister no longer spoke. Disinfolklore, as an analytical method, is the author’s attempt to answer how someone’s own sibling can believe television over them. This is the question that drives the entire framework.

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