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In the wake of Syrian missile strike, a look inside Russia's alternate media reality

  • Written by Cynthia Hooper, Associate Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross

On April 11 the White House released an intelligence report accusing Russia of trying to cover up the use of chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad through a global disinformation campaign replete with “false narratives.”

As a professor of Soviet history with an interest in media studies, I’ve been following...

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