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By Kevin Roose
Sept. 25, 2018
To an untrained eye, USAReally might look like any other fledgling news organization vying for attention in a crowded media landscape. Its website publishes a steady stream of stories on hot-button political issues like race, immigration and income inequality. It has reader polls, a video section and a daily podcast.
But this is no ordinary media start-up. USAReally is based in Moscow and has received funding from the Federal News Agency, a Russian media conglomerate with ties to the Internet Research Agency, the troll farm whose employees were indicted by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, for interfering in the 2016 presidential election.
Caught flat-footed by the influence campaigns of 2016, intelligence agencies and tech companies in the United States have spent months looking for hidden Russian footprints ahead of the midterm elections.
USAReallys website, which began publishing in May, does not advertise its Russian roots. But in many ways, it is operating in plain sight.
Its founder, Alexander Malkevich, is a Russian journalist with little previous experience in American media. Its domain was registered through a Russian company, and its formation was announced in a news release on the Federal News Agencys website. The project, originally known as USAReally, Wake Up Americans, was intended to promote information and problems that are hushed up by major American publications controlled by the political elite of the United States, according to the release.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/technology/usareally-russian-news-site-propaganda.html
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)erronis
(15,241 posts)If the Politburo finds out that you are looking at western links you may be relocated to a much colder place.
As you know, all real news comes from Pravda, RT, and Isvetzia.
See you in the gulag, man.