In this case, DavidRvR, spreading false narratives and disinformation is actually doing the work of Russia’s cyber warfare dept. Your posts become part of a mass of online propaganda. So many people look at stuff on the internet and assume if it is there on the web, it must be true. If they see it many places, if it shows up in their Facebook feed, it gains credence. Like a virus, it hitches a ride wherever it can and it replicates. Quoting and providing links to such propaganda does free work for the FSB/KGB. It makes you a patsy.
The other day, I went to Pravda ("Truth") the grande dame of Soviet news. There was an article of patriotic blather, in English, using some of the $5 words gionnirocket dislikes. It was authored (putatively) by someone with a very British sounding hyphenated name, presumably to add double-barreled cache to the opinions expressed. But there was something off in the language, in the grammar, as though it was not a native English speaker. If you read it with a Russian accent though, it sounded okay, and it was very clear that it was written by a Russian speaker, masquerading as a British intellectual. But it was just Russian propaganda.
The (supposedly) Dutch reporter in that article you linked to is giving out "Pravda", not truth. It is so patently false, with the whole "Ukrainians staged it all" BS, that it is almost a theater of the absurd. Like Alex Jones and his whole insulting crap about how the Sandy Hook massacre never happened, it is a massive disrespect to everybody who died and all the families left bereft.
So if you insist on giving false equivalency to such disinformation and the actual truth, you may as well be handing out copies of "Pravda" on street corners. Which is actually what you are doing digitally.
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