{"id":5117,"date":"2022-03-23T09:39:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T08:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/23\/dark-arts-inside-the-25-march-guardian-weekly\/"},"modified":"2022-03-23T09:39:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T08:39:11","slug":"dark-arts-inside-the-25-march-guardian-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/23\/dark-arts-inside-the-25-march-guardian-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark arts: Inside the 25 March Guardian Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who is winning the Russia-Ukraine infowars? Plus: lessons for the next pandemic<br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/support.theguardian.com\/uk\/subscribe\/weekly?promoCode=WWM53X\">Get the Guardian Weekly delivered to your home address<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, Vladimir Putin\u2019s packed stadium rally<strong> <\/strong>in Moscow last week revealed there is no shortage of Russian people who believe the Kremlin\u2019s grotesquely doctored version of the \u201cspecial operation\u201d in Ukraine. But it\u2019s not just a matter of state propaganda in Russia: a wider battle for informational truth is under way, exemplified last week by a deepfake video in which Ukraine\u2019s leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy purportedly called on his own soldiers to surrender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt strikes me that the easiest way to find out if your leader is a big fan of authoritarianism is to follow the trail of lies and disinformation needed to keep them in power,\u201d says San Francisco-based illustrator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/staufferstudio\/?hl=en\">Brian Stauffer<\/a> on the thinking behind his artwork for this week\u2019s cover. \u201cAlthough the truth can be manipulated, access to social media and smartphone cameras makes for fewer shadows to hide in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2022\/mar\/23\/dark-arts-inside-the-25-march-guardian-weekly\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b211c1366e89204af07a1ef62afa55e6382f707b\/133_0_6554_3934\/master\/6554.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9eda59f3e67fb4195a4279eb04fb2751\" title=\"Dark arts: Inside the 25 March Guardian Weekly\" \/>Who is winning the Russia-Ukraine infowars? Plus: lessons for the next pandemicGet the Guardian Weekly delivered to your home address<br \/>\nIf nothing else, Vladimir Putin\u2019s packed stadium rally in Moscow last week revealed there is no shortage of Russian people who believe the Kremlin\u2019s grotesquely doctored version of the \u201cspecial operation\u201d in Ukraine. But it\u2019s not just a matter of state propaganda in Russia: a wider battle for informational truth is under way, exemplified last week by a deepfake video in which Ukraine\u2019s leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy purportedly called on his own soldiers to surrender.<br \/>\n\u201cIt strikes me that the easiest way to find out if your leader is a big fan of authoritarianism is to follow the trail of lies and disinformation needed to keep them in power,\u201d says San Francisco-based illustrator Brian Stauffer on the thinking behind his artwork for this week\u2019s cover. \u201cAlthough the truth can be manipulated, access to social media and smartphone cameras makes for fewer shadows to hide in.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is winning the Russia-Ukraine infowars? Plus: lessons for the next pandemicGet the Guardian Weekly delivered to your home address If nothing else, Vladimir Putin\u2019s packed stadium rally in Moscow last week revealed there is no shortage of Russian people who believe the Kremlin\u2019s grotesquely doctored version of the \u201cspecial operation\u201d in Ukraine. But it\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/23\/dark-arts-inside-the-25-march-guardian-weekly\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dark arts: Inside the 25 March Guardian Weekly<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}