Analysis: Disinformation and Propaganda in War

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By Patrick Chen/Yin Khvat

Russia has consistently denied that it has targeted civilians. Yet on Wednesday, Moscow attacked a mall in central Ukraine where an estimated 1,000 people were shopping. Is this an example of a type of propaganda that stretches back to the Cold War? Denisa Hilbertová is a historian at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic researching Cold War disinformation about Taiwan, or the Republic of China. Reporter Yin Khvat spoke with her from the 4th World Congress on Taiwan Studies, underway in Seattle.