Google last month announced it would “derank” both to give them less prominence on Google News and other platforms. But it also has more traditional media arms such as the website “Sputnik” and the RT network.īoth Sputnik and RT have their own considerable web presence. Particularly in its most recent campaigns, social media analysts believe Russia has been using an army of automated social media feeds, dubbed “bots,” to get its message across. Moscow’s hand is seen as trying to drive support for the far right across the continent as well as a host of disparate causes like Brexit and independence for Catalonia. The European Union’s counter-disinformation campaign “EU Disinfo” says it has tracked more than 1,300 examples of pro-Kremlin interference this year. In Europe the evidence is even more widespread. intelligence agencies are united in their conclusion that Moscow interfered directly during the 2016 presidential election, primarily through hacking Democratic Party e-mails and disseminating their content to discredit Hillary Clinton. President Donald Trump might remain unconvinced, but outside the White House there remains little doubt that President Vladimir Putin’s government has deliberately attempted to drive political events in Europe and the United States. As the United States, Britain and other European nations obsess ever more deeply about potential Russian interference within their borders, they ironically risk playing further into the Kremlin’s hands. But it also points to a growing and increasingly difficult dynamic. The ads are yet another sign of just how overtly Moscow and its outlets have been reveling in their newfound reputation for driving events in Western politics. Here, Russian Communist Party supporters carry flags at Red Square to mark the October Revolution's centenary in Moscow, November 5, 2017. Western leaders are increasingly concerned about Russian attempts to interfere in European and U.S.
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