Correspondent in London
This will not calm relations between London and Moscow.
Jointly with Cardiff University, the Foreign Office on Monday released a report on a massive Russian propaganda operation to spread disinformation using Western media to serve the interests of the Kremlin.
According to researchers at the Crime and Security Research Institute, 32 leading media outlets in 16 countries were targeted via their reader comment sections.
Among the websites concerned, those of the
Daily Mail
, the
Daily Express
and The
Times
in the United Kingdom, Fox News and the
Washington Post
in the United States,
Spiegel
and
Die Welt
in Germany,
La Stampa
in Italy and the
Figaro
in France.
The study focused on 242 articles dealing with politically controversial events.
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The mechanism would always be the same: “pro-Russian” or anti-Western comments are published in reaction to relevant articles on Russia.
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