@simon_brooke @sascha_wolfer @dw_innovation

Since Russia is currently engaged in an aggressive war against Ukraine, I'm certain that their official propaganda is currently the worst. When the US was engaged in an aggressive war against Iraq, their official propaganda was worst. The purveyors of disinformation services want people to believe that one of these entities is permanently better than another.

"Disinformation", by the way, is the most black-and-white term of all. Rather than saying that every nation produces propaganda, that no propaganda can be trusted, and that all it shades the truth to some degree, it labels some wholly false based on who it comes from.

But we're getting away from this particular case. I find the DW poster's assertion that it can't be surveillance because it is a public event particularly questionable.. It is a very European idea that one can put cameras feeding into facial recognition centers in every public square and that is not surveillance because these are public spaces.