Russian expert: The costs of media attacks on Russia this year exceeded 18 billion dollars

Moscow (ST): Director of the Safer Internet Association, Yekaterina Mizulina, announced that the media attacks on Russia, which have continued since the beginning of the special military operation, have cost its organizers more than $18 billion.

Mizulina was quoted by TASS news agency as saying in a statement today: “According to the estimates of our experts, more than 18 billion dollars were spent on media attacks on Russia in the current year, and these funds were spent on creating, promoting and distributing fake information through bloggers and foreign agents and on buying advertising sites, and the promotion of studies and research and the production of publications to disseminate and produce unreliable information about Russia and its army in the Russian language and through foreign media.”

Mizulina added: “The Association has drawn up a list of the most popular fake news during the year 2022. In the first place came the misleading and false information about the killing of civilians in the Ukrainian city of Bucha, and this lie was further entrenched by the presence of mismatched dates, fake satellite images, and others.”

K.Q.