STOCKHOLM - With a vigorous national debate underway on whether Sweden should enter a military partnership with NATO, officials in Stockholm suddenly encountered an unsettling problem: a flood of distorted and outright false information on social media, confusing public perceptions of the issue.
New York Times: A powerful Russian weapon; the spread of false stories
Russian forces pose as they block the Ukrainian unit in Perevalnoye, not far from Simferopol, on March 5, 2014.