New in SpyWeek: Russian, Chinese Covert Actors Pump Up Kirk Conspiracies
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Disinfo Derby. Russia never misses an opportunity to throw more gas on the fires of American politics, and so it went this month within hours of the Sept. 10 murder of conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk, with Moscow’s disinformation warriors “seeding social media with the frightening claim that America is slipping into civil war,” possibly involving elements of a “deep state,” the A.P. reported. “Chinese and pro-Iranian groups also spread disinformation about the shooting, with those loyal to Iran’s interests backing antisemitic conspiracy theories while bots linked to Beijing claimed that Kirk’s death shows that the United States is violent, polarized and dysfunctional.”
