Prague ‘spy thriller’: Western activists rail against ‘fake news’, but will believe anything if it villainizes Russia

a British journalist living

It is well known that some people always believe what they want to believe. Despite a lack of evidence and no coherent narrative, there are those who will accept anything which aligns with their already-held worldview.

A bizarre ‘story’ from Czechia is the latest installment in the ‘blame Russia’ game; a sort of ‘faith-based’ mass psychosis. If you pranked a friend with a fictitious anecdote, you’d label them ‘gullible’. But what do we call it when a group of highly influential and well-published scholars, journalists, and commentators does the same?

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