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Is Russian media meddling with the West?
Probably, writes BEN COWLES, but then they are just following the West's lead

IN AN attempt to deflect media attention away from her government’s sordid disarray, Theresa May used her speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet this week to accuse Russia of mounting a “sustained campaign of cyber espionage and disruption” in an attempt to “sow discord in the West.”

Of course Russia probably is doing something like this, but so too is every other state on the planet. Thanks to good ol’ capitalism and the free market, every country with an internet connection is probably trying to “sow discontent” somewhere. It’s all part of the desperate bid to gain more control of the world’s resources before global climate change renders Earth inhospitable.

May also denounced Russia for “deploying its state-run media organisations” to produce “fake stories and photoshopped images” in its bid to undermine the West.

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