Columbia Journalism Review’s Big Fail: It Published 24,000 Words on Russiagate and Missed the Point
Mother Jones illustration; AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Misdirection, an essential tool for magicians, is not usually a component of media criticism. But in a lengthy critique of the coverage of the Trump-Russia scandal published this week by the Columbia Journalism Review, veteran investigative reporter…
NY Fund Manager Linked to Russian Oligarch Invested Big with Santos. Now He Claims He Was Conned.
Tom Williams/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.There is something odd about the relationship between GOP fabulist George Santos and Andrew Intrater, a sophisticated and wealthy New York financier, Republican donor, and cousin to sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg. Intrater was one of Santos’…
US Diplomat Describes Moments With Brittney Griner on Homebound Flight
Brittney Griner aboard a plane before her departure to the United States.Sputnik/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After her release from a Russian penal colony on Thursday, Brittney Griner didn’t want to decompress or relax upon boarding the plane that would bring her back…
“An Abyss of Fear and Wild Lawlessness”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Signs of the Russian presence linger everywhere in the recently liberated southern Ukrainian city of Kherson. In shops, vendors still sell “Crimea” brand lemonade, made in Russia. Hanging from billboards are exhortations that “Russians and Ukrainians are one people”—old-fashioned…
How the Story of Soccer Became the Story of Everything
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.One afternoon last October, thousands of fans began gathering outside St. James’ Park, the 130-year-old home of the English soccer club Newcastle United, to celebrate a new beginning. Some sported the club’s traditional black-and-white striped jerseys. Others toted cases…
Russia Revives Its Botnet to Hit Swing-State Democrats
Contributor/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Russian trolls and bots are coming back online ahead of the midterms—this time, amplifying right-wing vitriol on Gab, Parler, Gettr, and other minor social media platforms serving far-right audiences. Cybersecurity researchers have identified the reactivation of inflammatory accounts linked…