NATO establishes information warfare center in Riga

NATO has established a new media information office in the capital of Latvia in order to counter alleged Russian propaganda. A crew of journalists is arriving from Afghanistan, where they were working for NATO.

The new center is an element in so-called 'hybrid warfare' (a concept used by NATO to describe the current situation in Ukraine), RIA Novosti reports with reference to TeleSur.

The staff are arriving from Kabul, where they were deployed to produce audio and visual content in favor of NATO.

According to the Director of the center, Janis Karklins, in addition to anti-Russian propaganda the journalists will also work on “the weaponization of social media”, aimed at countering pro-Russian sentiment, in a country where about 25% of the population is ethnically Russian.

The center will also study the official Russian political narrative and suggest NATO responses to the military bloc, TeleSur writes.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite and Latvian Defense Minister Raimonds Vejonis previously claimed their countries are already under attack by an “information war” allegedly launched by Moscow.