The American pushing Russian disinformation, August 2024 edition

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Humans have access to more information than any moment in history, and probably more than our entire written history gathered together, and the disinformation is almost a rule in some places on internet, on Facebook and other social media, on websites like DC Weekly and Chicago Crier. They are filled with thousands of legitimate-looking stories, plucked from real news websites and rewritten by Artificial Intelligence.

BBC Trending has found that these sites are part of a wide-ranging influence operation designed to insert false stories into political debates, over Ukraine and now gradually shifting to the USA election campaign, and the team from BBCWorld Service channel took over the misinformation subject.

One of the people involved in the operation is John Dougan, a former Florida police officer living in Moscow at least in June 2024 when the episode was recorded. Online evidence links him to the network of sites, many of which reference American cities and are populated by fake journalists – their photos swiped from other websites across the internet. Russia is in the middle of the war with Ukraine but the network is only one of a series of Russian disinformation operations which experts believe is part of a wide effort to influence American public opinion in advance of USA presidential election from November 2024.

The chapters from the video:

  • 00:00 Introduction
  • 03:20 How the operation spreads disinformation
  • 06:33 Who’s behind DC Weekly and other similar websites?
  • 08:40 John Mark Dougan’s network
  • 10:59 Russia is benefiting - but is that the extent of it?
  • 13:24 What are the narratives on Dougan’s sites?
  • 15:16 How worried should Americans be about Russian disinformation ahead of elections?

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