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Russia's Information Wars

Has Russia changed the rules of the game with the use of fake accounts on social media to meddle in the 2016 US presidential election?

The first edition with our new name: Newshour Extra is now The Real Story with Carrie Gracie.

Has Russia changed the rules of the game with the use of fake accounts on social media to meddle in the 2016 US presidential election? The US Special Counsel Robert Mueller has now filed numerous charges against Russian individuals and entities in connection with Donald Trump's presidential campaign. But US spy agencies have themselves practised disinformation and interference in other countries over many decades and so critics say Russia is now delivering the US a dose of its own medicine. Has Moscow transformed modern information warfare? And behind the headlines, what other countries and forces are manipulating information and politics in open societies? Answering these questions is our challenge on the real story this week with Carrie Gracie and her panel of expert guests.

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50 minutes

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Sat 24 Feb 2018 12:06GMT

Contributors

Mathieu Boulegue - Chatham House, an international affairs think-tank in London

Dmitry Linnik - former London bureau chief of the Voice of Russia radio station

Molly McKew - advisor on cyber-security and information warfare.

Also featuring:

Jack Barsky - a former undercover KGB agent, now a US citizen

Dr Heber Brown III - religious leader in Maryland who confronted an allegedly fake Russian account on Twitter.

Howard Zhang听- 大象传媒 Chinese service

Mike Wendling - editor of 大象传媒 Trending

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