Opinion | Operation Infektion: A three-part video series on Russian disinformation

MEET THE KGB SPIES WHO INVENTED FAKE NEWS
We reveal how one of the biggest fake news stories ever concocted — the 1984 AIDS-is-a-biological-weapon hoax — went viral in the pre-internet era. Meet the KGB operatives who invented it and the “truth squad” that quashed it. For a bit.