How Russian Journalists Dealt With Fake News
It seems new to the U.S. But the Russians have been dealing with it for years.
The phenomenon of fake news has become almost trendy in the U.S., but the Russian public and media have experienced it for years.
“We dealt with this when it was not so fashionable,” said Galina Timchenko, the executive editor of Meduza, a Russian-language news website based in Latvia. “We have been working with a fake agenda for years.”
Timchenko,who was speaking Fridaytraced fake news in post-Soviet Russia to the Yeltsin years. Over time, fake news, combined with an increasingly hostile state attitude toward a free press, has culminated in a media environment with little space for free and independent journalism.
