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The founder of America’s Frontline Doctors, a group that spreads pandemic misinformation, stood by as a Capitol Police officer was assaulted, then entered the Capitol and made a speech against Covid vaccines, according to a Justice Department filing.
Experts say stories like the Ghost of Kyiv and Snake Island, both of questionable veracity, are propaganda or morale boosters, or perhaps both.
Videos and photos show the bodies of soldiers left behind on the battlefield, officials say, and the charred remains of tanks and armored vehicles.
Google, Meta, Twitter, Telegram and others are levers in the conflict, caught between demands from Ukraine, Russia, the European Union and the U.S.
In the former Communist East, security officials worry that a long-running movement against Covid restrictions is becoming an incubator of political violence.
After marinating in conspiracy theories and Donald J. Trump’s Russia stance, some online discourse about Vladimir Putin has grown more complimentary.
Russia’s president has made such arguments before, but usually as asides — not as the justification for urgent action in Ukraine.
An occupation in the capital demonstrates the dangerous influence that American disinformation is having on otherwise stable democracies.
Theatrical meetings and dubious battlefield reports have shaped the Kremlin’s narrative that war is being pushed on it by a United States determined to destroy Russia.
The country’s propagandists have used a variety of tools online to promote a vision of the Games that is free of rancor or controversy.