“Russian Propaganda”: On Social Networks, in Eastern Europe, and Soon Everywhere

... not planning?” To draw an analogy, the RAND report raises the question of what Russia does not influence. The authors sound quite dramatic: “Moscow blends attributed, affiliated, and nonattributed elements and exploits new realities of online and social media to conduct information warfare at a perhaps unprecedented scale and level of complexity” (pp. 7–8). “The Russian government’s sphere of influence is global” (p. 9). “The Kremlin has built a complex production and dissemination apparatus that integrates ...