"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Russia’s initiative is not fact-checking, writes NewsGuard AI and Foreign Influence Editor McKenzie Sadeghi. It’s an effort to defend Russian disinformation.
Russia’s long-term objective in the global information war has never been to convince the world of its version of events. Instead, it seeks to erode the very idea that objective truth exists. The Kremlin’s goal, as described by British journalist Peter Pomerantsev, is to create a world where “nothing is true and everything is possible.”
This strategy was on display on April 9, 2025, when TASS (NewsGuard Trust Score: 15/100), a Russian government run wire service, and the Russian nonprofit ANO Dialog, previously sanctioned by the European Union for spreading disinformation, launched the “Global Fact-Checking Network” (GFCN). [...]
