One of Russia’s most powerful
tools has been its propaganda. Get ready for some more wild,
outright false claims about the war in Ukraine and a bunch of other
issues, because Russia just launched another propaganda outlet,
called “Sputnik News,” specifically aimed at an American
audience.
Sputnik “slickly remixes President Vladimir Putin’s brand of
revanchist nationalism for an international audience, presenting
the United States as an ailing imperial power bent on holding on to
its domains,”
explains
Foreign Policy’s Elias Gross. Sputnik is “cheeky,
Internet-savvy” and a lot like BuzzFeed.
The government-funded site went live on Monday, and it’s already
got some bizarro stories: Miami is a “rebellious
breakaway region” like eastern Ukraine …read more
Source: Reason.com
