When Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, it also launched a parallel propaganda war to try and blur the lines of what was happening on the ground in Ukraine, in an effort to divide the world about the truth. Jeff Semple takes a look inside the Russian disinformation machine, including an exclusive interview with a Russian journalist who went undercover inside a modern-day “troll factory” that was set up to help sow misinformation online about the Russian war effort.
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