How the Kremlin promotes disinformation under the guise of fact-checking
kremlin continues its policy of promoting disinformation under the guise of fighting fake news. Confirmation of this came with amendments to the budget: the russian government is allocating an additional 100 million rubles (over $1 million) to combat so-called “destructive content.” The funds will go to the ANO “dialogue regions,” a kremlin-linked entity that has been involved in internet censorship and the creation of fake news for years.
▫️ The “disinformation expert” at this organization is a propagandist known as timofey V (vasilyev). He is suspected of creating many fake stories about prisoners of war and fabricating content with the help of AI. timofey V is also the chief specialist in the propaganda project “global fact-checking network” (GFCN), which the Center previously reported on.
kremlin is turning yet another propaganda project into a budget program that will promote disinformation under the guise of fact-checking. In this way, the russian authorities are trying to cover their lies with rhetoric about “defending the truth.”
The Center has already reported on how propaganda is organized in russia.
