Rebecca Adler-Nissen

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Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, speaks to the media during a news conference in Moscow on Sept. 17. The Russian military said Monday that the missile that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, killing all 298 people on board, came from the arsenals of the Ukrainian army, not from Russia. (Kirill Zykov/Moscow News Agency/AP)

This week, the Russian Defense Ministry tried to discredit the official findings that a Russian missile downed a Malaysian Air flight (MH17) in Ukraine in July 2014, killing 298 people.

In the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, tech giants testified before Congress that the Russian Internet Research Agency used fake social media accounts, often posing as concerned Americans, to manipulate the American public. According to Facebook, the covert campaign may have reached the news feeds of as many as 126 million U.S. users.

We know some of the top-down regime tactics and strategies, but far less about who actually spreads digital disinformation and who counters it.…  Seguir leyendo »