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Sep 2022
1h 17m

War on ‘Russian Disinformation’ is the N...

RANIA KHALEK
About this episode
To discuss the disinformation industry and how it's contributed to the collapse of foreign reporting in the West, Rania Khalek was joined by Ben Norton, a Latin America based journalist and founder of Multipolarista. Ben’s article discussed in the episode: https://multipolarista.com/2022/04/14/new-york-times-attack-propaganda/ Listen to every episode of ... Show More
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