How (Not) To Report On Russian Disinformation - bellingcat

"Unfortunately, the New York Times’ treatment of The Russophile is a concise case study in exactly what not to do in covering disinformation. To start with, to say that therussophile.org is an inconsequential website is an understatement. The eponymous Russophile is a long-time Swedish blogger named Karl with a little bit over 5,000 Twitter followers, and his site, as cited by the Times (therussophile.org), operates as a small news aggregator. Here, the most well-known newspaper in the world directly names a rarely-visited news aggregator ran by an obscure Swedish blogger mostly known to the English-language Russia watcher blog scene from a decade ago."