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    Commentary: Russia’s misinformation campaign smacks of what Orwell’s ‘1984′ warned

    Madeline Roache seemingly has a dream job: getting paid for watching TV and transcribing what she sees. Don’t envy her. She’s watching the morning news in Russia. Roache is a colleague and London-based analyst at NewsGuard, which assesses the credibility of news and information sites and TV news shows. She speaks Russian, has reported from Ukraine and chronicles misinformation spawned by ...
    by James Warren, Chicago Tribune Apr 26, 2022 3 minutes
    Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova attends a joint press conference of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres following their talks in Moscow on May 12, 2021.

    Madeline Roache seemingly has a dream job: getting paid for watching TV and transcribing what she sees.

    Don’t envy her. She’s watching the morning news in Russia.

    Roache is a colleague and London-based analyst at NewsGuard, which assesses the credibility of news and information sites and TV news shows. She speaks Russian, has reported from Ukraine and chronicles misinformation spawned by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation.”

    She writes a daily newsletter on how a much-watched newscast portrays the “operation.” She said, “It’s extremely disturbing to see how

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