Secret Russian Mission to Shield Putin From ‘Dwarf’ Insults Exposed

TL;DR

Vladimir Putin’s ego—and alerting the president’s spooks should there be any online mentions of him as a “bald dwarf,” Hitler wannabe, or a “thief. ” In a report detailing their efforts to thwart the “destabilization of Russian society,” the censors included a few gems found online, including “Putin 100% has dementia! The old man has lost his mind!” and “Will a sane Russian support a president with mental illnesses?”Staffers at the federal agency are reportedly required to seek out “negative, discrediting” information about the Russian president using some of the most famous slurs against him as search terms, including “Putin’s a thief,” “Putler,”’ “bald dwarf,” and a reference to Putin as Zaches, a freakish little boy from an 1819 German fairytale. Meduza this week that the search engine does not “remove any links from search results on its own,” but that a link may vanish if it is added to a database of blocked sites by federal monitors or a court decision

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