Carlson Spread Lies From “Russian” Propagandist

Mediaite reports:

Fox News’s top-rated host, Tucker Carlson, accused the media and U.S. government of lying about the war in Ukraine, reportedly on the basis of altered versions of leaked military documents shared by a well-known pro-Russian propagandist.

Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal’s chief foreign-affairs correspondent Yaroslav Trofimov interviewed the woman behind the social media channel, from which Carlson appeared to get a critical piece of information he used to attack the Biden administration in a searing screed last Thursday.

Nexta reported on Sunday that “Fox News host Tucker Carlson used the faked version circulated on “Donbass Devushka’s” Telegram channel to claim that Ukraine had a 7-to-1 troop loss ratio and is “losing the war.”

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Tucker Carlson pushed a fake version of a U.S. intelligence document about Ukrainian war casualties. It was doctored by a fraud podcaster who claimed to be a Russian woman from Luhansk. In reality, Sarah Bils is a former U.S. Navy clerk from New Jersey—and she pocketed all the… https://t.co/s9tRXD6we0

— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) April 17, 2023