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Summary from a previously deleted comment here:

  "It's concerning how influential Russia's propaganda & PsyOps
  campaign has affected America(ns)"  

It's interesting to hear about the recent talking points in major news media publications about "FAKE NEWS" which is just newspeak for Propaganda.

Some might not be aware, but in 2013 the US removed protections against domestic propaganda:

  The U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948
   (Public Law 80-402), popularly called the Smith–Mundt 
  Act, specifies the terms in which the United States 
  government can engage global audiences, also known as 
  propaganda. The act was first introduced as the Bloom 
  Bill in December 1945 in the 79th Congress and 
  subsequently passed by the 80th Congress and signed into 
  law by President Harry S. Truman on January 27, 1948.


  The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
  2013 (section 1078 (a)) amended the United States 
  Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 and the 
  Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987, allowing for 
  materials produced by the State Department and the 
  Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to be released 
  within United States borders for the Archivist of the 
  United States.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130715/11210223804/anti-...