U.S. company, Russian propaganda: Kremlin tactic reveals escalating effort to sway U.S. vote

Russia has long sought to inject disinformation into U.S. political discourse. Now, it's got a new angle: paying Americans to do the work. The recent indictment of two Russian state media employees on charges that they paid a Tennessee company to create pro-Russian content has renewed concerns about foreign meddling in the November election and revealed the Kremlin's latest tactic in a growing information war.

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, Russian state media claimed without evidence that the virus was the product of American bioweapons experiments and that the U.S. maintained biological laboratories in Ukraine. English-language posts soon started showing up on American social media sites. Four years later, the conspiracy theory still reverberates on far-right message boards.

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