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Trump rift opens floodgates of disinformation on Ukraine


Disinformation targeting Ukraine and Volodymyr Zelenskyy is surging as Donald Trump's shift frays relations with Kyiv.

Disinformation targeting Ukraine and its leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy is surging as US President Donald Trump's shift on the war frays relations with Kyiv and threatens to cripple support for the battle-worn nation. "We have observed a notable resurgence in anti-Ukraine disinformation narratives across US social media, many of which appear to be repurposed content from prior Russian influence campaigns," said McKenzie Sadeghi, an analyst with the misinformation watchdog NewsGuard. As with some other Storm-1516 fakes, the two clips feature Ukrainian military insignia prominently but do not reveal "even a flash of an actual person's face, even a hint of an indication of where these things are filmed," Linvill said.

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