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Originally Posted by pip08456
I think you'll find it is more for their home market.
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It's not (and at least not entirely). It's why they fund RT and Sputnik News. The latter finds many of it's 'stories' disseminated in the Western Press. It's why they have these troll farms.
This news report from RT is meant for a international audience for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKE6YKw5Y40
They did it during the Cold War:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation
They spread so much disinformation, alternative stories and so on in the aim that some useful idiots run with it and everyone else just gives up trying to understand what actually happened or think it's impossible to ever know.