Ɖ Gardịn vy on disinḟmeśn: truʈ z a caźlti v Ruśa’z wor
(Transcription of an editorial published in the Guardian on Tuesday 22 March 2022)
Vḷdīmir Pūtin’z mśīṇri z wel-hond, bt snsrśp at hom n ɖ pṛmośn v laiz abrōd hv srjd sins ɖ inveźn
Tyzde 22 Marć 2022
Vḷdīmir Pūtin’z reźīm hunts dǎn ɖ truʈ n seḷbrets laiz. It ʈretnz t jel ɖoz hu dscrîb oṇstli ẃt z haṗnñ in Ycren – a wor. It breznli dnîz dokmntd atacs upn sviłnz. It cncocts clemz ɖt ɖ YS n Ycren plot t spred paʈ̇jnz yzñ mîgretri brdz. It akzz uɖrz v its ǒn sinz: noun fr its wilñnis t fec ivnts, it clemd ɖt a heṿli pregnnt, viẓbli injrd wmn foṭgraft līvñ ɖ bomd mtrṇtiword in Mariupol wz an actr.
Ɖoz iṃjz, n hr stori, wr capćrd bî a ftogṛfr n a rportr fṛm ɖ Asośietd Pres. Ɖ absns v inḟmeśn in a bloced hz tū golz, notd ɖ rportr, Msćislav Ćernov: ceos, az ppl panic, bt olso impyṇti. “Wɖ no inḟmeśn cmñ ǎt v a siti, no picćrz v dmoliśt bildñz n dayñ ćildṛn, ɖ Ruśn forsz cd d ẃtvr ɖe wontd.” Ćernov hz rvild ɖt Ycreńn soljrz hd risct ɖer livz t xtract him n hiz colīg fṛm ɖ siti bcz Ruśnz wr huntñ fr ɖm – hopñ t fors ɖm t rtract ɖer wrc on camra n se ɖt evrʈñ ɖe hd filmd wz a lai.
Ruśa hz loñ sòt t criet its ǒn riaḷti, bʈ bî dnayñ ɖ truʈ n bî invntñ a ny stori. Bt at hom its rpreśn hz dṛmaticli xpandd sins ɖ inveźn. Fes-bc n Insṭgram hv bn bánd, n Twitr bloct; axes t foṛn nyzmīdia rstrictd. Ɖ intṛdux́n v a lw ɖt puniśz spredñ “fec nyz” wɖ p t 15 yirz in prizn promtd jrṇlists t fli ɖ cuntri; indipndnt ǎtlets includñ ɖ Medūza websait n rediosteśn Eħa Moscvi wr bloct or śut dǎn. Mnẃl, stetmīdia pumps ǎt laiz. Ɖt mni v Ruśa’z dnaylz n akześnz r dmonstṛbli untru, dīpli uncnvinsñ or plenli lūdicṛs me nt matr. Ɖ gol z t cnfyz, nt cnvins.
Ruśn disinḟmeśn peṇtretd ǎr ssayti loñ ago: wrcñ t pṛmot Doṇld Trump’s campenz in ɖ 2016 n 2020 preẓdnśl ilex́nz; meḍlñ in ɖ Brexit reḟrendm. In sm cesz ɖ em hz nt bn t frɖr a ptiklr cōz, bt t fostr dviźn, sć az bî ampḷfayñ stroñli pro- n anti-vaxīn meṣjz. N bynd d’rect involvmnt, Ruśn meḍlñ hz cntribytd t a p’liticl stîl – most obvịsli, ɖt v Mr Trump – ẃć trīts truʈ n fact az dspnṣbl n ireḷvnt.
Ɖ ćaḷnjz r growñ az tecnoḷji dveḷps. Last wīc, a dīpfec srfist: a śort clip pportñ t śo Volodimir Zelenski telñ Ycreńn soljrz t le dǎn ɖer armz. Ɖo crūdli x’ktd, it pônts twdz ɖ ny perilz ahd. Bt súnlait rmenz a pǎrfl disinfctnt. Ɖ YS, Ycren n ɖ YC hv bgun “prībuncñ”: wornñ ẃn ɖe antiṣpet ɖt Ruśa wl lōnć “fōls flag” oṗreśnz, n rvilñ ɖt a hox vidiocōl hd bn md t ɖ dfnșecṛtri, Ben Wolis, bfr ɖ hoxrz rlist it. Disinḟmeśncampenz mst b fŭli invstgetd n xpozd – smʈñ ɖ YC sigṇli feld t d in ɖ ces v ɖ Brexit reḟrendm, az ɖ intelijns n s’kṛti cmiti’z rport on Ruśn inflụns notd. Ɖs me olso mīn inśurñ ɖt técfrmz arcîv, nt simpli dlit, disinḟmeśn, t enśur it cn b trest bac.
Bt s’portñ ɖoz hu gt it rît z az importnt az holdñ bad actrz acǎntbl. Abv ol, w mst seḷbret ɖ curij v ɖoz hu spīc ɖ truʈ, b ɖe Ycreńnz on ɖ fruntlîn laic ɖ AP tīm, or Ruśnz laic Marīna Ovsianīcova, hu dsruptd Ćanl Wn’z mn nyzbrōdcast, n ɖ staf v nyzpepr Novaia Gazeta. Az Ćernov, ɖ AP rportr, obzrvd: “I hv nvr, evr flt ɖt brecñ ɖ sîḷns wz so importnt.”
