Month: November 2020

Meet the KGB Spies Who Invented Fake News

From The New York Times:

We reveal how one of the biggest fake news stories ever concocted — the 1984 AIDS-is-a-biological-weapon hoax — went viral in the pre-Internet era. Meet the KGB cons who invented it, and the “truth squad” that quashed it. For a bit.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000006210828/russia-disinformation-fake-news.html?smid=em-share

The Seven Commandments of Fake News

From The New York Times:

The Pizzagate playbook: Same tactics, new technologies. How the seven rules of Soviet disinformation are being used to create today’s fake news stories. Pizza anyone?

https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000006188102/what-is-pizzagate.html?smid=em-share

The Worldwide War on Truth

From The New York Times:

Governments from Pakistan to Mexico to Washington are woefully unequipped to combat disinformation warfare. Eastern European countries living in Russia’s shadow can teach us how to start fighting back, but only if our politicians decide to stop profiting from these tactics and fight them instead.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000006188105/countering-disinformation-active-measures.html?smid=em-share

What to do when your neighbors have carried out crimes against humanity.

From The New York Times:

Atención! Murderer Next Door

https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000007380932/atencion-murderer-next-door.html?smid=em-share