If charges can be issued on the basis of false advertising of products why aren’t they issued on buyer’s receipt of propaganda instead of paid for News? After all, you’re buying a product that’s fake by subscribing to an offer of News, and getting misinformation instead. Worse, in reality, you’re in fact the product, the worm, duped, scammed, tricked to become a rating’s bait to simply on-sell or catch a bigger fish.
Those facts have not stopped far-right media figures and fringe outlets from furthering Russia’s disinformation campaign, defending the invasion, and declaring Ukraine to be a “client state of the US.”