What do you do when one of your heaviest disinformation attacks backfires? You send out way more disinformation attacks and hope that they will silence the outrage about such obvious attempts to deceive and mislead the international community.
We have seen exactly this pattern during the last week in Russia’s disinformation ecosystem. The pro-Kremlin outlets were still hectically spreading all kinds of contradictory stories about the Skripal case and the suspects that had been identified by the British authorities when they received a “helping hand”: an interview with so-called Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov (the duo suspected of poisoning Sergei Skripal and his daughter), conducted by Margarita Simonyan, the head of the main international disinformation organisation of the Kremlin, Russia Today (renamed RT).
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