re: #22 Snarknado!

Why the “kinda”? The Kremlin pretty much xeroxed the Fox News machine: 24/7 carefully channeled outrage, hot newsreaders, lotsa cool colorful grafix, partial truth mixed with totally made up shit with no distinction between “reporting” and opinion.

You have reversed initiator and copier… but I agree.

I do believe that the term “disinformation” comes from the Soviet Union. One of their specialties.