Disinformation amplifying. so on the one hand there was an impact in the united states political process in the insurrectionists on january 6. then the second aspect of that is as people protest, as people say, you know, the vote was stolen, that biden s illegitimate, that there isn t strong support in the u.s. for nato, that then gets picked up within russia, that gets picked up by russian state television and russian state media. so not only is it something that s getting placed into the u.s. dialogue by a number of things including russian disinformation sources, it s then being harvested back and looped into the kremlin where, you know, putin, by all accounts, is a very, very limited number of advisers and information in place that he s receiving, one of which appears to be russian state media, including those statements that he and his intelligence services have helped cede. it is this constant loop that i think absolutely creates a false impression that then allows him to say, we
Disinformation sources to undermine plant a false flag and distract from the real actors who were responsible for the insurrection, is really quite a stretch. reporter: it started with an article published by revolver news, a right-wing website it was a weave of inaccurate the crux of the theory? that indictments against some rioters accused of planning the attacks including references to unindicted co-conspirators, who the article claims could be undercover fbi agents. as newy and untrue the theory is, it s gone viral, primary because it was promoted by tucker carlson on his show on
He s wearing a red jacket in this video. eventually one of the officers actually wrestles the flagpole away from defendant thomas webster, but then webster is seen tackling that officer to the ground, some very disturbing graphic video of that day among just reams of this video we ve gotten about january 6th. this comes as we re getting new information about a dangerous new conspiracy theory about january 6th that has gone viral. tonight, some conspiracy theorists are going to town on a crazy false story about what was behind the january 6th attack on the capitol, circulating a narrative that the fbi orchestrated the assault. really reaching into disinformation sources to try to undermine, plant a false flag and distract from the real actors that were responsible for the insurrection is really quite