A former sheriff from Florida has received political asylum in Moscow, and is now a key player in Russia's disinformation operations against the West, the NYT reports.

"Working from an apartment crowded with servers and other computer equipment, Mr. Dougan has built an ever-growing network of more than 160 fake websites that mimic news outlets in the United States, Britain and France."


(NYT archive)
archive.is/GWRzR

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@Kinnison He has been a key player for sometime, its just that now he is doing it from Russia.

@Lucky188

yep just feeding misinformation now to conservatives and right wing hate machines

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