The fake news organizations, experts say, represent a technological leap in the Kremlin’s efforts to spread false and misleading narratives.

D.C. Weekly, the New York News Daily, the Chicago Chronicle and a newer sister publication, the Miami Chronicle.

In fact, they are not local news organizations at all. They are Russian creations, researchers and government officials say, meant to mimic actual news organizations to push Kremlin propaganda by interspersing it among an at-times odd mix of stories about crime, politics and culture.

  • Rimu@piefed.social
    3·
    4 months ago

    Good find, thanks.

    That website is laughably bad. Check out the lorum ipsum on the ‘About’ page. Check out the title - “Giving the florida news”??! I can’t believe Russian psyops are this bad, when they have rt.com, sputnik, zerohedge and many more all running very smoothly.

    This has to be a feint. It’s a fake, to make their actual psyops more believable.

    Maybe I’m being too 6D chess about this.

    • Jay@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Several of the articles are also stolen from other sites like yahoo and msn news to make it try and appear legit and fill in some content.

      And at the bottom of the page it’s the “Chicago Chronicle”

      And the whole page template is from here https://demos.codetipi.com/zeen-news/

        • Jay@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          I guess lol!

          I tried chicagochron.com to see if that was still up, but it brings me to a “The domain has been suspended due to a complaint or violation of LiquidNet Ltd Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).” page