Piskorski: Ukrainian propaganda is becoming little effective

Ukraine is simply a country where freedom of expression and freedom of media activity do not be in practice, though so-called. The West with the stubbornness of a maniac tries not to announcement it. All standards and standards in this area have been violated consistently since the beginning of its existence, and have peculiarly intensified after the overturn of 2014 and after the beginning of the current war phase, on February 24, 2022.

So we had sanctions, followed by complete bans on publications incompatible with the government line, closing tv stations critical of the crew Vladimir Zelenski, and yet the complete monopolization of electronic media by the President's Office. After the first social mobilization of natural in war conditions, however, Ukrainians present believe little and little in the veracity of government propaganda messages.

Lies Marathon

As of February 24, 2022, the Ukrainians were to inform about the situation on the front of the program. Some News (ukr. Єди́ні нови́ни), called telemaraton. The thought was simple – respective of the most crucial tv stations had common forces to produce a common 24-hour program. The thought itself appeared even before the outbreak of the current phase of the armed conflict – the first fewer hours of specified a format of a common information program were aired on 16 February. At the time the Minister of Culture was behind the initiative Aleksandr Tkachenko.

In time, their own information programs disappeared from the antenna of the another channels, and control companies made them, most likely not necessarily voluntarily, decisions to join the national telemaraton. Others, despite the expressed desire, were not allowed to produce it. On January 3, the fresh York Times published Article citing a number of critical opinions on the Ukrainian information monopoly. It mainly cited the opinions of Ukrainian experts and medical experts. Oksana Romaniuk, president of the Kiev Mass Information Institute stated that “Everyone has had adequate of these pictures saying that we ‘win, everybody likes us and gives us money’. This is government propaganda”. In 2023, 68% of the airtime was allocated to promoting the statements of people associated with Zelenski and his party, and only a tiny part to the statements of independent experts and opposition representatives. In the early weeks of March 2022, the show's ratings reached 40% to fall to about 10% at the end of 2023.

Increasingly Resistant to Propaganda

Study Ukrainians' trust in propaganda telemaraton has late been addressed by the Kiev global Institute of Sociology. Interestingly, the centre is associated with many years of cooperation with Americans, including the active USAID agency in Ukraine controlled by the State Department. investigation results, although expected, show a clear trend. In December 2023, only 43% of the respondents believed the information provided by the propaganda monopolist (in the first months of broadcasting it was 69%).

The Ukrainians' assurance level in the alleged telemaraton from May 2022 to February 2024.

The level of assurance in telemaraton clearly depends on the attitude towards the current Ukrainian president: among his supporters, 69% believe in the authoritative message, and only 29% believe in the others. Interestingly, the most frequently distrust of the channel is declared by the inhabitants of the western regions of the country (44%), although specified a consequence can be the consequence of intimidation of Ukrainians from the south and east. All data show unequivocally – a uniform propaganda message created by the Ministry of Culture and the presidential administration has suffered defeat already (only?) after little than 2 years.

Ukrainian awakening and Polish propaganda replicators

This shows, on the 1 hand, any reasonably apparent phenomena: fatigue of war, a decline in support of the political class, which confirms the resignation of Zelenski's squad from holding the presidential elections in May. However, alternate transmission besides plays an crucial role. Especially younger Ukrainians learn about events on the front and not only from increasingly popular channels in social media, including most commonly utilized in the post-missile area of Telegram.

The primitive, disinformation and propaganda transmission of telemaraton is already evident not only in Ukraine, but besides in the United States and elsewhere. Meanwhile, Polish-language mainstream media proceed to treat Zełeński tube as a origin of nonsubjective information. As a result, we are fed further idioms and fantasies about Kiev's upcoming grand triumph in a confrontation with Moscow. False information leads to false political conclusions, and incorrect decisions, which can cost us all a lot today.

Mateusz Piskorski