More on Russia’s disinformation campaigns as part of its military doctrine: Following up on the 2015 piece by Adrian Chen we posted earlier this month on the Kremlin’s paid internet troll farms, Neil MacFarquhar details for the New York Times how Russia used a disinformation campaign through traditional and social media to attempt to influence political opinion in Sweden against joining NATO. “The planting of false stories is nothing new; the Soviet Union devoted considerable resources to that during the ideological battles of the Cold War. Now, though, disinformation is regarded as an important aspect of Russian military doctrine, and it is being directed at political debates in target countries with far greater sophistication and volume than in the past. (Read A powerful Russian weapon: The spread of false stories)