Artificial Intelligence: The Gap between Promise and Practice The Political Side of Things

Drudge has for years used his site as a web traffic pipeline for Russian propaganda sites, directing his massive audience to nearly 400 stories from RT.com and fellow Russian-government-run English-language news sites SputnikNews.com Those numbers spiked in 2016, when Drudge collectively linked to the three sites 122 times. Drudge's increasing affinity for and proliferation of Russian propaganda comes amid what The New York Times calls "a new information war Russia is waging against the West."