Nice find. Longish, but interesting article on Mr Dougan. Interesting to see familiar phases and accusations, often spouted by trolls on FR, came from his work in Russia creating fake news, X, and YT sites.
Excerpt:
“Dozens of new sites have appeared in recent months. They included ones made to look like local news outlets: The Chicago Chronicle, The Miami Chronicle, The Boston Times, The Flagstaff Post and The Houston Post. Some of the new sites have names, like Right Review and Red State Report.
“Some hijacked names of actual news organizations, like The San Francisco Chronicle, or approximated them, in the case of one called The New York News Daily.”
“At the time, Recorded Future (he threat intelligence company) identified 57 domains that Mr. Dougan had created. In a two-day span after the report was published, 103 new sites appeared, all on a server in California.”
I used to work for The Houston Post as a kid, I didn’t anticipate seeing the name used like this.