Here's How Russia Runs Its Disinformation Effort Against The 2018 Midterms
The Justice Department has revealed more than ever about the inner workings of Russia's disinformation war against the United States and the West – including how it continues to this day.
A criminal complaint unsealed Friday in the Eastern District of Virginia served both to level charges at a woman accused of serving as the money boss for the operation but also to document, in ample detail, how it works.
Who's responsible?
The branch of active measures the Russians call "Project Lakhta" has been running since "mid-2014," and works through some dozen Russian entities, of which the best-known probably was the "InternetIt, quasi-"news" and other organizations employed hundreds of people, with a global budget of the equivalent of tens of millions of dollars, U.S. officials say.
