There is a serious point here. Since 2016, too much of the MSM & Democrats have decided that anything that's mentioned by Kremlin-controlled or Kremlin-friendly outlets is off-limits and ipso facto untrue.

This is about politics, not disinformation.

Let me explain... https://twitter.com/TomBevanRCP/status/1337004826752937984

There is a clear distinction among counterpropaganda professionals between (actual) fake news and regular old disinformation, which often contains a fair amount of truth. The former includes outright fabrications, eg the Seth Rich deception, which was authored by the Kremlin...

The complete lie that Rich was murdered by a DNC death squad was literally authored by the SVR -- a fact which I was the first to expose several years ago, per below. It was completely made up, and still lives on in certain fetid online swamps... https://observer.com/2017/08/russia-white-house-disinformation-seth-rich-hr-mcmaster/

But the Kremlin and its online friends also push a lot of stories that are half-truths, sometimes even largely true, for propaganda effect. Merely dismissing a story, in toto, simply because Friends of Putin push it frankly says more about you than it does about the SVR or FSB...

Kremlin-friendly outlets also push a lot of Lefty stories (eg US racism, pro-BLM stories, etc) which I don't see any liberals saying are now tainted because the Russians push them.

Treating all RIS disinformation as simply a lie shows you don't understand what it actually is. /X