country as “terrorists” affiliated with the jihadist group ISIS when, he asserted, the Russian forces were actually bombing other anti-Assad rebel groups. In another instance, Fionda said, an article he wrote in September 2015 about President Obama’s repatriation of Guantánamo(
9/11 Michael Isikoff, Hunter Walker/ Andrew Feinberg/ During that time, John Fionda wrote, Sputnik conducted “a perception management information warfare program” about Russia’s military involvement in Syria. He said the news organization falsely described Russia’s targets in that (