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If you see any hard-to-accept news stories this election season, particularly if those stories are pro-Trump or pro-Republican, check the source. And if the source is the D.C. Weekly, The New York News Daily, The Chicago Chronicle, or The Miami Chronicle you know you are quite literally dealing with fake news.
Yes, that is the latest scam being run by the Russians as they attempt to influence American politics. They've chosen some domain/newspaper names that sound credible, and now they are using them to push "news" stories about American politics and about the war in Ukraine.
It's kind of a ham-fisted, low-tech way of doing things, and the websites are not very well done. Maybe the Russians are spending so much on their invasion of Ukraine they've had to cut the salaries of their hackers. Also, the various search engines are not yet giving much precedence to results from the sites, so it's not actually that easy to find them. That means that, at least for now, those who want to read news coverage from a Russian mouthpiece will have to stick with Fox. (Z)