Digital Doublethink: Playing Truth or Dare with Putin and Assad
The First Casualty
Outrageous bits of fake reporting, and the grotesque ISIS reality show, demonstrate just how hard it is to separate fact from fiction in the Ukraine and Syria wars.
PARIS—Viral news about the world’s battlefields, often dubious and occasionally outrageous, went completely delirious over the last few days. A Moscow broadcaster presented bogus “proof” that the Ukrainians, not the Russians or their cronies, blasted a Malaysian airliner out of the sky last summer.
