The Litvinyenko affair....

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Another case of aggressive Russian propaganda - Oh no!!

?Epic fail! US diplomats find they can?t control the narrative on social media ? RT Op-Edge

On a recent spat between the Economist and RT, an official from the US’ Moscow embassy tweeted a poll to his followers on whether tho's version of events they trust more:

The brave Will decided to conduct a Twitter poll, allowing his 1,600 followers to decide whether they believed RT’s version of events or those of The Economist. As of 6 p.m. Moscow time on Sunday, 617 had ‘favorited’ for RT and 43 had ‘retweeted’ for The Economist. Twitter diplomacy had become Twitter democracy, and Mr. Steven’s epic fail was apparent.

Thanks to his tweet, we also know that a portion of those interested in US-Russia relations trust RT over The Economist by a margin of over 14 to 1.

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I'm changing my job title to 'spy'

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31096849

I wonder if he had opt-out issues or was IR35 caught

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And this just in - not an RT link this time just for some balance:

Obama Admits US Role in Ukraine Overthrow

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And here's today's offering from the BBC:

BBC News - Ukraine crisis: US considers 'lethal aid' to government

It has all the usual omissions and whooly covering of inconvenient facts such as:

Both sides have blamed each other for dozens of recent deaths of civilians

Not blaming it on the Russians then - if not thet why not? Because the civilian deaths are in East Ukraine and Poroshenko is killing his own people maybe? Or are the Russian side shelling themselves?

Fifteen civilians were killed in the rebel-held city of Donetsk over the weekend, rebel sources said.

Overall, more than 5,000 people have been killed and some 1.2 million have fled their homes since last April, when the rebels seized a big swathe of Luhansk and Donetsk regions, following Russia's annexation of Crimea

What's the death count for each side? How does that fit the Western narrative? Also the 1.2 million who have fled their homes - where have they fled to and who has taken them in and given them asylum and safety? It aint Kiev... How does that fit the Western narrative?

In an interesting twist they've allowed comments on this article - almost all of which are BBC readers expressing concern about the direction this whole thing is going in.

There is hope for humanity yet

The BBC need a serious slap from Ofcom it would seem...