“And because business interests and power-brokering cross borders, fake news think tanks don’t end with domestic groups: ‘You have this additional strain of foreign influences spreading disinformation,’ says Lisa Graves, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy. ‘Like bots from abroad retweeting factoids intermixed with fake news.’ You’ve probably read some of Russia’s handiwork.”
Source: Fake Think Tanks Fuel Fake News—And the President’s Tweets | WIRED