You may have heard recently we accidently got a little peak at a giant western propaganda operation.
A fake charity, funded by the FCO:

Whose head quarters is a derelict mill:

And who hacked documents show are running a secret list of influencers, filled with Atlantic council propagandists, warmongering msm journalists, politicians, think tanks and even Bill Browder (
http://www.magnitskyact.com/) -
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/11/british-government-behind-secret-anti-russian-disinformation-campaign.htmlhttps://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2018/11/29/if-you-thought-the-cambridge-analytica-scandal-was-big-wait-till-you-see-this/

They have of course been promoting Luke Hardings fabricated story about Assange, alongside a relentless stream of other dubious pro NATO, anti Russia propaganda, and their list of twitter chums is a grim litany of the most unhinged and unscrupulous warmongering pissbabies on twitter:
Luke Harding
Emma Beals
Bob Seely MP
Chris York
Stewart McDonald MP
Brian Whitaker
Dan Kaszeta
James Le Mesurier
Mark Mardell
Ben Bradshaw MP
PropOrNot ID Service
Edward Lucas
Tom Tugendhat MP
Richard Angell
Oliver Kamm
Luke Harding
Carole Cadwalladr
Padraig Reidy
Daniel Finkelstein
Scott Lucas
Oz Katerji
Peter Geoghegan
Jamie Susskind
Michael Marshall
John Schindler
Idrees Ahmad
Ben Nimmo
From the initiatives policy document:
The programme has begun to create a critical mass of individuals from a cross society (think tanks, academia, politics, the media, government and the military) whose work is proving to be mutually reinforcing.
Yes, we can see!
We live in an era where the Guardian can print a fabricated story given to them by the security services with total impunity, I'm sure Luke Harding will get promoted for it in fact. So the next time you see a dodgy looking story in the msm saying Russia this, or Syria that, I think we can have a pretty good idea that this network of 'mutually reinforcing' influencers, each echoing each others lies, are behind it.
Then there is the ongoing social media purge of antiwar and leftist accounts, the Atlantic council censoring facebook, and google deranking Russia today, amongst other assaults on our ability to expose and hold these liars to account.
And the msm dares to get on its high horse about fake news? And wonder why nobody trusts them?