The Department of Justice laid out its charges in an affidavit and an indictment, targeting an initiative called Doppelganger, allegedly headed by Vladimer Putin's domestic policy chief Sergei Vladelenovich Kireyenko.
One such offering appeared on a spoofed Washington Post site under the headline 'White House Miscalculated: Conflict With Ukraine Strengthens Russia,' packaging Russian propaganda as straight news reports.
The Doppelganger charges suggest a classic, Cold War-vintage exercise in propaganda; the aim of state-sanctioned efforts to mold mass opinion is to simulate the tone and tenor of respectable elite discourse.
The affidavit says that the United States has seized and shut down 32 such sites launched by the Doppelganger team in an effort to counter Russian influence.
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