Breitbart, other 'alt-right' websites are the darlings of Russian propaganda effort
Oren Dorell, USA TODAY Published 4:11 p.m. ET Aug. 24, 2017 | Updated 5:58 p.m. ET Aug. 24, 2017
Amid an investigation into Russian meddling in the last U.S. presidential election, a Russian propaganda Twitter network aimed at American audiences consistently spreads links to Breitbart and other right-wing or conspiracy theory websites that boost President Trump and bash Democrats.
The websites — which include True Pundit, the Gateway Pundit and Imperialist U — are regular features on the list of “Top Domains” pushed by a network of 600 Twitter accounts followed by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, which tracks a Russian disinformation and propaganda campaign focused on U.S. voters.
On Thursday, the most popular domains mentioned by the network in the previous 48 hours, according to the tracker, included True Pundit, the Russian government-controlled television network RT, the Gateway Pundit, Fox News, Russian government news agency Sputnik News and Breitbart.
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A lot of rubbish news is out there as well, sorry fox made the list. Russia's press is state sponsored, at least the sources here are. I don't trust their joke reporting on Syria, Ukraine and so on.
Edit On: As Rubio said, the propaganda ends up appealing to the far-right but also the "far-left" who basically are still sympathetic to Russia because it was communist and there are probably remnants of that system. Some extreme leftwing websites use the propaganda too. An interesting anomaly. That website, antiwar seems that way.
