Conspiracy Theories, Fake News and Disinformation. Why There’s So Much of It and What We Can Do About it

... Foreign State-Sponsored Disinformation in the Digital Age " The report begins with a horrific story broadcasted on the Russian state-owned “Channel One” in 2014. The story covered how Ukrainian soldiers crucified a child in front of its mother's ... ... there was neither a killed child, nor shocked mother. Still, the story went viral. It had reached a much broader audience on social mediathan it did on television. The authors refer to that story as "an example of Kremlin-backed disinformation campaign....