In March, the US government accused the founder of Moscow-based company Social Design Agency of orchestrating a "persistent foreign malign influence campaign" on behalf of the Kremlin. The propaganda operation dubbed "Doppelganger" involved spreading memes,

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) doesn’t seem to care that the Department of Justice revealed a Russian plot to once again influence a presidential election. To him, they’re just “a few memes or videos.”Cotton told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday’s State of the Union that,

Elon Musk is using his social media platform to promote misinformation about the presidential candidates in the lead up to the November election, amplifying false claims Wednesday about a Trump rally bomb threat and immigrants eating pets in Ohio.

Musk, apparently unaware of the company’s Russia funding source, engaged with content from Tenet Media and its creators at least 60 times.

Elon Musk constantly accuses the media of spreading lies. But no one is better at spreading lies than Musk himself. This time, he amplified a rumor to his 198 million Xitter followers about a debunked bomb threat near Trump's Long Island rally with the comment,