opinion
MUDDYING THE WATERS
Americans may be on to the Kremlin’s tricks now, but Putin is getting a helping hand this time around: Conservative media and even the White House are spreading disinfo for him.
Clint Watts is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the author of Messing With The Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians and Fake News.
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