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On right-wing and pro-MAGA websites, it isn’t uncommon to find conspiracy theories being promoted in the comments section. And according to Wired’s David Gilbert, some of them are coming from Russia. “The disinformation narratives being pushed by these accounts are linked to Storm-1516, according to Newsguard,” Gilbert explains in an article published on November 1. “Storm-1516 is a Russian disinformation campaign with a history of posting fake videos to push Kremlin talking points to the West that was also connected to the release of deepfake video falsely claiming to show a whistleblower mak…

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