Officials in the US intel community tell the AP far-right website Zero Hedge is a front for a Russian disinformation operation, a development that is surprising to approximately zero people with even a passing familiarity with the site’s batshittery and obnoxious rAnDomLY cAsED hEaDLinEs.
Intel sources cited a specific source on Zero Hedge, the “Strategic Culture Foundation” as being operated by the SVR, the Russian foreign intelligence service. The Strategic Culture Foundation is already subject to sanctions by the Biden Administration for its interference in the 2020 election, something Zero Hedge’s editors were unaware of, claiming there “is no relationship between Strategic Cultural Foundation (or the SVR) and Zero Hedge, and furthermore this is the first time we hear someone allege that the Foundation is linked to Russian propaganda. They are one of our hundreds of contributors – unlike Mainstream Media, we try to publish a wide spectrum of views that cover both sides of a given story,” as if Zero Hedge carries articles from Slate or MSNBC.