Opinion | Functioning Infektion

By Adam B. Ellick and Adam Westbrook

Russia’s meddling inwards the United States’ elections is non a hoax. It’s the culmination of Moscow’s decades-long crusade to tear the West apart. “Operation InfeKtion” reveals the ways inwards which i of the Soviets’ key tactics — the promulgation of lies most America — continues today, from Pizzagate to George Soros conspiracies. Meet the KGB spies who conceived this virus together with the American truth squads who tried — together with are withal trying — to grapple it. Countries from Islamic Republic of Pakistan to Brazil are directly debating reality, together with inwards Vladimir Putin’s greatest triumph, Americans are using Russia’s playbook against i unopen to other without the faintest clue.

Meet the KGB Spies Who Invented Fake News

We let on how i of the biggest mistaken word stories e'er concocted — the 1984 AIDS-is-a-biological-weapon hoax — went viral inwards the pre-internet era. Meet the KGB operatives who invented it together with the “truth squad” that quashed it. For a bit.We let on how i of the biggest mistaken word stories e'er concocted — the 1984 AIDS-is-a-biological-weapon hoax — went viral inwards the pre-Internet era. Meet the KGB cons who invented it, together with the “truth squad” that quashed it. For a bit.Nov. 12, 2018CreditThe New York Times
The Seven Commandments of Fake News

The Pizzagate playbook: same tactics, novel technologies. How the 7 rules of Soviet disinformation are beingness used to create today’s mistaken word stories.The Pizzagate playbook: Same tactics, novel technologies. How the 7 rules of Soviet disinformation are beingness used to create today’s mistaken word stories. Pizza anyone?

The Worldwide War on Truth

Governments from Islamic Republic of Pakistan to United Mexican States to Washington are woefully unequipped to combat disinformation warfare. Eastern European countries living inwards Russia’s shadow tin instruct us how to get-go fighting back, but entirely if our politicians create upwards one's ask heed to terminate profiting from these tactics together with grapple them instead.Governments from Islamic Republic of Pakistan to United Mexican States to Washington are woefully unequipped to combat disinformation warfare. Eastern European countries living inwards Russia’s shadow tin instruct us how to get-go fighting back, but entirely if our politicians create upwards one's ask heed to terminate profiting from these tactics together with grapple them instead.Nov. 12, 2018

Adam B. Ellick is Director together with Executive Producer of Opinion Video. As a Senior Video Correspondent, he co-produced a Pulitzer Prize-winning video most an Afghan massacre, together with directed Malala’s Story, the documentary that brought Malala Yousafzai’s storey to the world.The New York Times · yesteryear Adam B. Ellick · Nov 12, 2018
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