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Operation InfeKtion is a 47-minute long documentary produced by the New York Times which uses archival footage and interviews.It presents examples of the information warfare military strategies used by the Soviet Union’s KGB in operations against the United States.

Interesting to note is that several months after the publication of this, Yahoo News published also published an article based on an unclassified FBI document about Conspiracy Theories which also deals with this issue.
Disinformation: The Dangers of Distorted Reality

How economic pressures cause by changes caused by the growth of the internet that have lead to the decline professional and ethical standards in publishing and the general public’s increasing.
As disinformation campaigns seeks to mobilize the emotions of their audience by distorting reality for political ends, this means that it’s now easier than ever for false information to be inserted into public discourse.
Because the Constitution and the U.S. legal system so highly values freedom of expression,  there is no singular Federal Law nor widely-adopted industry-standards for honesty or integrity in journalism and publishing, nor is there any enforcement organization in the United States outside of the courts.
This lack of accountability is why technology companies that host or link to news content have recently been targeted for regulation by the government.