The full Poland lives on information about acts of sabotage on the Polish railway. It began on Sunday with unofficial reports on profiles acquainted with the situation in the services and the PKP.
The rulers long did not confirm the version of the diversion, erstwhile advised calmness (by the mouths of the spokesperson of the Ministry of abroad Affairs), erstwhile straight suggested that there was something for things (in the letters of Prime Minister Tusk). Finally, on Monday morning, the head of the government confirmed the worst suspicions about the attack, more specifically attacks, on the Polish railway. By then, our native net has already been decently profiled.
Tusk's fault?
Shockingly published on Monday morning an analysis of Res Futura Data home showing the reactions on the Polish net to reports of the blast of a fragment of the track close Życzyn. Among the comments appearing online as much as 42% pointed to the Ukrainians, and 19% blamed... Donald Tusk's government. Only all 4th entry pointed to apparent perpetrators/inspirators of sabotage, or Russian services.
It is clear that this does not mean that Poles thought of all this on Sunday. However, you can see clearly how they wanted to profile our infosphere, in order, although in any of the recipients, to sow a seed of uncertainty already known to us.
This happens all time there are actions in Poland that balance the threshold of war. erstwhile respective drones flew into our country, Russia rapidly launched all its digital forces and means to get the Nadwiślański net flooded with suggestions that it was the Ukrainians who were at least out of control, and most likely simply wanted to draw Poland into conflict.
This kind of tilt is visible at the events around the war, due to the fact that even the most crucial events in Polish politics – from the sale of the land under the CPK to the March of independency – bring more evenly distributed online emotions. Russia is out of business so far to artificially fuel the mood.
But this does not mean that Russian services operating on the Polish net are dormant and are only waiting for further drones, arsons or sabotages. It is their regular presence in their "favorite" themes that builds in Poland the increasing negative emotions.
I think each of us saw what was happening under almost all Facebook post informing about any local event in which a citizen of Ukraine took – or could have taken part. In fact, there is nothing in the hundreds of comments placed under it to find anything another than pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian statements.
The Ukrainians' fault?
It is clear that between Poles and Ukrainians since 2022 there has been a full array of hard topics, resulting from cultural differences or the average ruins of everyday life. However, this does not explain that with a Facebook post informing about the detention of 4 men in Gdańsk for the brutal beating of the Ukrainian against a national background, 99% of the comments are blamed for this... Just beaten up Ukrainian.
The hard Polish-Ukrainian relations do not explain the peans in honor of pro-Russian activist Nazar, who was detained for driving on drugs, which under each publication about himself finds hundreds of Polish-language defenders. In fact, sometimes it doesn't request a Ukrainian in information to pour out the sewer, just adequate information about the common theft to propose that it is “certainly an ukre”, even if the article clearly indicates that the perpetrator was a Pole.
Of course, it is not that specified movement generates only artificially created by Russian account services. Thanks to the success of the disinformation run in Poland since 2022, the pro-Russian party, Grzegorz Braun, has been increasing in the polls, whose voters are over-programmed in the network and are increasingly going beyond their internal, wonderful groups of exchange of opinions.
The Confederate itself, although trying to civilize and be a substantive voice in Polish politics, inactive has Konrad Berkowicz in his ranks, who on Monday afternoon placed a post clearly indicating – without of course half a gram of evidence – guilty of blowing up tracks in Mazovia.
Although Krzysztof Bosak rapidly ordered him to remove a photograph suggesting that the Ukrainians blew up the railway line, which for 4 years has been receiving military aid, immediately afterwards Sławomir Mentzen added his 3 cents, convincing that Russia has no interest in creating chaos associated with this situation in Poland.
Where's the government?
Where is the Polish government in this situation? Ano is far distant in the field erstwhile it comes to trying to break the pro-Russian communicative on our Internet. As Jarosław Wolski rightly noted in his crucial post on Monday, it has long been an authorisation for pro-Russian propaganda in the Polish public space, spread by a group of about 50 pro-Russian influencers, "journalists", "political critics", "geopolitans", or net users with large coverage.
On the 1 hand, the government keeps saying that in the cyberspace sphere we are already in war for good, on the another hand, it acts like it's all just a game of innocent publishing simple harmless stupidities.
I realize that we are busy fighting the constant cyber attacks on Polish infrastructure, but if we are able to spend evidence money on the military, then let us find the means – and most of all, the will – to take action to reconstruct control of online narrative.
Otherwise, we'll be as smart as always after the damage. In 2022 pro-Russianism in Poland was a full margin. present he knocks on the front door of the mainstream, next day he starts to swell.
8% Braun did not come out of nowhere, his KKP organization sustains in the investigation the consequence of its leader from the presidential election. Fear to think what will happen if in 2027 the group becomes a tongue in weight and 1 of the larger parties will feel tempted to establish coalition cooperation with them. Then many will say that Russia is the 1 who has messed with democracy.
