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The fake Guardian article – which emerged earlier this week – quoted Sir John Scarlett, the former head of MI6, as falsely claiming that the Rose Revolution in Georgia in 2003 was instigated by British and US intelligence services to destabilise Russia.
The people behind the fraudulent article built a website that looked similar to the original and made the domain name look plausible by replacing the i in Guardian with a Turkish ı.
They can’t use the word ‘the’, which is a classic signature of Russian speakers,” he said.
“It makes the fake obvious to native speakers, but maybe English language speakers are not the primary targets. It is being used much more and shared much more in Russian language, which makes me think the target is a Russian one.”
A Russian website called
Pravosudija.net has translated fake articles purporting to be from al-Jazeera, the Atlantic and Haaretz.❞
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