For a very brief time, late in the Cold War, the US State Department had a very shoestring team called the "Active Measures Working Group" who worked to investi

For a very brief time, late in the Cold War, the US State Department had a very shoestring team called the "Active Measures Working Group" who worked to investigate and counteracting disinformation. They had some success, such as uncovering the Soviet origins of the lie that the US created AIDS in a military lab, but the effort was wound down after the Soviet Union fell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Measures_Working_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Measures_Working_Group https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/opinion/russia-meddling-disinformation-fake-news-elections.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/opinion/russia-meddling-d... (very good video series, highly recommend for anyone interested in disinformation) https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-long-history-of-russian-disinformation-targeting-the-u-s https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-long-history-of-russia...