The GOP war on truth itself

John Neely Kennedy, the junior senator from the state of Louisiana, only plays the stereotypical dumb hillbilly character on TV to be relatable to his constituents. He is not a dumb hillbilly. Kennedy graduated from Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia School of Law before attending University of Oxford (Magdalen College) in Oxford, England. … Read more

How Russian state disinformation works with its American right-wing counterparts

Last Wednesday, Attorney General William “Coverup” Barr — who has been globetrotting around Europe in pursuit of the “deep state” conspiracy theory that it was really Ukraine and the Democrats who interfered in the 2016 election, not the “innocent” Russians, in an attempt to discredit the Mueller report and to obtain Brady exculpatory evidence to … Read more

Donald Trump’s ‘dezinformatsiya’ campaign using ‘deepfake’ video to attack Nancy Pelosi

Earlier this year I warned you about Donald Trump’s ‘dezinformatsiya’ campaign in 2020, employing the propaganda techniques and tactics that his campaign learned from Russian intelligence operatives in 2016. One of the techniques which has been perfected since 2016, and which will become more prevalent in the 2020 campaign, is “deepfake” photos and videos. Last … Read more