The KGB had a department within a directory, or an entire directory devoted to disinformation. Ever since the Vietnam War I have regarded whatever the media produced as disinformation until it was proved otherwise.
Upton Sinclair, sometimes called “America’s truth teller”, wrote hos book abput Sacco and Vanzetti as an exoneration despite knowing from their lawyer that they killed those men. The reason, he told his lawyer, was because that would sell well with his Leftist readers in Europe.
There were riots and people were killed because Sacco and Vanzetti faced justice for their crimes.
If you look at the false narratives the Left has been pushing with Burn-Loot-Murder or AntiFa you will see that they are still working the same angle.