Why is propaganda easier to spot in English, but trickier in German or Italian?

Language structure and culture shape how manipulation hides — and how AI (or humans) detect it.

Let’s break down why some languages make propaganda detection harder 🧵

#Linguistics #DisinfoResearch

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Bottom line:
Propaganda speaks differently in every language — but the intention is the same.

Stay curious. Question emotional extremes.

Next: Why pro-Kremlin narratives go viral, and what we can do about it.

#Linguistics #DisinfoResearch

"Slavros lists his heroes as Benito Mussolini, Julius Evola, a “super-fascist” occultist admired by Stephen Bannon, Ivan Ilyin, a reactionary Russian white emigrée celebrated by Putin, and obscure “National Bolshevik” Nikolai Ustryalov" www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/12...

NSF is canceling grants tied to misinformation research—right as we’re drowning in it.

This isn’t just budget cuts. It’s political pressure dressed up as bureaucracy.
Democracy can’t thrive when truth is a casualty.

🔗 www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/nati...
#DisinfoResearch #DemocracyDiesInSilence