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ions from reach- ing Russian audiences even as it steadily expands the reach of its own mouthpieces, the television channel RT and the news service Sputnik. China blocks the websites of mainstream foreign media while en- couraging its corporations to purchase influence in popular culture abroad through
believe that the Ukrainian gov- ernment is responsible for massive war crimes, includ- ing the crucifixion of small children and the downing of the Malaysian Airlines passenger jets Many of the wildest assertions have been reinforced by altered or repurposed images that allegedly depict Ukrainian atrocities but
technology is clear. "You can now, with a single EFTA_R1_02208352 EFTA02722872 chip, create most of the capabilities that you would have found in Sputnik, but, of course, orders of magnitude faster," says Mason Peck, a former chief technologist at NASA and now a professor at Cornell University. The
updates about the ships' positions without the vessels having to use costly dedicated satellite uplinks. Such a system might have been able to track Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, which went missing in March. Farther south in Mountain View, Skybox captures high-resolution imaging data from its first satellite i
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ations from reach- ing Russian audiences even as it steadily expands the reach of its own mouthpieces, the television channel RT and the news service Sputnik. China blocks the websites of mainstream foreign media while en- couraging its corporations to purchase influence in popular culture abroad through c
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019238 →s believe that the Ukrainian gov- ernment is responsible for massive war crimes, includ- ing the crucifixion of small children and the downing of the Malaysian Airlines passenger jet. Many of the wildest assertions have been reinforced by altered or repurposed images that allegedly depict Ukrainian atrocities but ac
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019251 →Entities connected to both Sputnik and Malaysian Airlines

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