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Russia Trains Teenage Influencers to Churn Out Pro-War Content
More than 120 teenagers learned video, artificial intelligence and audience-building skills at a Moscow camp as Russia expands pro-war messaging online.
- In early April, more than 120 teenagers gathered in Moscow for a content creation camp, where soldiers and state media reporters instructed them on producing pro-war videos using artificial intelligence.
- This training is part of a campaign to restore Russian military prestige, utilizing groups like the Young Army and Movement of the First—which claims 14 million online members—to instill Kremlin-approved values.
- Polling by the Levada Centre found social media is the main news source for Russians aged 18-24; Senior Advisor Giorgi Revishvili noted, "Shorter attention spans, combined with the effortless shareability of clips and reels, make digital content an exceptionally powerful tool."
- Vladislav Golovin, a former soldier and chief of the Young Army cadets, stated, "We have created a huge team of kids, who understand how to broadcast government values and our organisation's values."
- Russian President Vladimir Putin has emphasized this approach, quoting Otto Van Bismarck to say, "Educating young people in the spirit of patriotism is crucial.
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Russia is trying to promote on the Internet a new generation of war-favorable influences in Ukraine, organizing training camps for teenagers to spread among young people the harsh and anti-Western line of the Kremlin, reports AFP.
Russia is creating more pro-war influencers by sending teenagers to content production training camps. More than 120 young people attended a camp in April.
Russia is trying to produce more pro-war influences through content creation camps, where teenagers are trained to spread the harsh anti-Western Kremlin narrative to the next generation.
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Leaning Left7Leaning Right5Center7Last UpdatedBias Distribution37% Left, 37% Center
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- 37% of the sources lean Left, 37% of the sources are Center
37% Center
L 37%
C 37%
R 26%
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