Fake US government documents that circulated on the internet in recent months came from a Russia-connected disinformation group, researchers say
Social media companies still often find it difficult to attribute influence operations on their sites to particular intelligence agencies, and don't often get that information from the U.S. government.
For much of the Cold War, the Soviet Union regularly seeded forged or falsified documents into small, friendly news outlets, watching most go ignored.
“Anyone who's ever had a social media account will appreciate why: The hardest thing is to attract your first follower,” he said. “Secondary Infektion used a new account for almost everything it ever posted, so it was always trying to attract the first follower. That's not a high-impact strategy.” "I suspect they worked on the principle that if you haven't got an actual leak, make one up and see if anyone falls for it," Nimmo said.
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