Since 2014, I have worked on projects designed to analyze and push back against Russian (and other) disinformation schemes. But the open use of false stories and conspiracy narratives by Republican members of Congress is not a hurdle that I anticipated. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dueling-narratives-separated-by-a-polarized-media-collide-at-first-public-impeachment-hearing/2019/11/13/2f6dccac-0643-11ea-8292-c46ee8cb3dce_story.html

Swedes, Lithuanians - everyone who fights Russian disinformation knows that the creation of trust in national institutions is central to any counter-campaign. In the US that is now impossible. To protect Trump, Republicans are undermining the US government, civil servants.

The Republican use of blatantly false conspiracy narratives about Ukraine, plus their attacks on our core institutions, will divide our country further, and will help make Russian (and other) disinformation campaigns more successful in future. Happening before our eyes