According to the American side, this ecosystem consists of five points. This list includes "official government communications, government-funded global broadcasting, cultivation of improvised resources, the use of social media as a weapon and disinformation through cyberspace activities."
“The report, in my opinion, perfectly accurately describes the scheme of using the relevant information technologies, with one reservation. The American, not the Russian, scheme of actions is described. It is the Americans who work around the world in order to ensure their own domination, in order to change the situation in other countries in their favor, not shying away from any methods, including those that go beyond the framework of international law. But they attribute such actions over and over again to Russia, ”Kosachev said.
The senator noted. that the funds requested by the Department of State and the US Department of Defense on the Russian dossier are important for the authors of the respective initiatives not as a financial resource, but as "legislative confirmation that illegal actions prescribed to Russia are taking place on the Russian side."
“This is such a stamping through the US Congress of those theories that are developed in the respective offices in Washington, but have nothing to do with reality,” he added.
Earlier, the Russian Embassy assessed the US report on "Russian propaganda". The diplomatic mission believes that the State Department does not like the existence of alternative sources of information.