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Scott Radnitz quoted on “false flags” and recent U.S. allegations against Russia // PolitiFact

February 8, 2022

In “False flags: They’re real, but far less widespread than social media suggest,” Jackson School faculty Scott Radnitz, chair of the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, is quoted on the history of “false flags” and in the context of the recent U.S. allegations against Russia about a false flag operation in plotting an attack by Ukrainian forces as a pretext for invading the neighboring country.

Radnitz additionally has a faculty appointment (2021-2023) with the UW Center for an Informed Public.

UW Center for an Informed Public and Human Centered Design & Engineering faculty Kate Starbird, an expert on misinformation, is also quoted in the article.