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Russia Is Pumping Out Disinformation That Looks Like Legitimate News Reports | Despite Donald Trump's whining about "fake news," his administration has rolled back efforts to combat it, allowing fakes to flourish

A group publishing pro-Russia propaganda online is impersonating legitimate news outlets in an attempt to disseminate disinformation.

A group publishing pro- Russia propaganda online is impersonating legitimate news outlets in an attempt to disseminate disinformation, Politico reported, citing misinformation tracking organization NewsGuard. News report, claimed this past February that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) paid movie stars to visit Ukraine after Russia’s invasion in 2022. “It typically tends to surge and launch a wave of fakes around a particular news event,” Ivana Stradner, a researcher on Russia at the D.C. think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Politico.

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