An investigative report from the BBC exposed a Russian disinformation attempt that could have been straight out of the Cold War.
In September 2015, a video appeared online showing a man dressed like a U.S. soldier firing three shots from a Russian-made Saiga 401K rifle at a copy of the Quran.
The video caught plenty of interest in Russia, and sparked anger in Russia’s Muslim community.
According to the new investigation, however, the video was fake. Researchers traced it to Russia’s Agency for Internet Studies, which The Guardian called a “secretive Russian agency that hires people to write pro-Kremlin propaganda on the web.”
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Source: The Epoch Times
