Russian propaganda effort helped spread "fake news"

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It would have been nice if this had been reported before the election (detailed evidence, and not just innuendo), but here it is anyway:

From the Washington Post

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It seems that real news generates no interest compared to click-bait and conspiracy theory, even on this very site. But I will post another article from the Washington Post about the more than casual link between US conspiracy theories and Soviet disinformation before I let this thread die. The article directly mentions HIV denialism as being borne directly from anti-American propaganda, but others like the Apollo moon landing hoax and the nuclear-free movement of the 1970s were clearly engineered from the Kremlin as well.