“‘Russia has engaged in a rather remarkable period of the most overt and extensive propaganda exercise that I’ve seen since the very height of the Cold War,’ Secretary of State John Kerry told a Senate subcommittee in late February. It’s ‘spending hugely on this vast propaganda machine,’ he told another panel the same day, and it’s succeeding ‘because there’s nothing countering it.’”
Source: Sanctions-Strapped Russia Outguns the U.S. in Information War – Bloomberg Politics