US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the media at the State Department in Washington May 20, 2020. — Pool pic via Reuters
Pompeo pointed to efforts by “Russia and other malign actors” as he announced the effort to stop election interference. Trump has been outraged by the “Russia hoax” and in February removed the director of national intelligence over a briefing to lawmakers that found that Russia appeared to want Trump to win a new term on November 3.
The State Department's Global Engagement Centre, which is in charge of studying and countering foreign propaganda, warned in a report yesterday that Russia has invested “massively” in disinformation efforts on the internet. One favourite topic was the coronavirus pandemic, with Russian sites active in promoting unfounded narratives that Covid-19 was planted by the CIA or Microsoft billionaire turned philanthropist Bill Gates, the study said., an online journal that it said promoted “obscure Western fringe thinkers and conspiracy theorists” and formed foreign partnerships.
“It's difficult for just the average person who is online to look at these sites and know that it's actually Russian disinformation.”
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