This is how Russia thinks about fake news and media manipulation

One of the biggest stories of the 2016 presidential campaign was the hacking and release of internal emails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
And now, the highest echelons of the US security apparatus have a suspect for who was behind the email hacks: Russia.
The CIA and FBI have both discovered that, by releasing damaging information about the Democrats, the Russian government sought to undermine the US elections to some end.
The CIA says it was