AMERICAN FAKE NEWS AS A THREAT TO THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
American information pressure, in particular published false information by the U.S. media, causes harm to Russia in many aspects. So, from the formed and changed views of a Russian reader and listener on the political, economic and social situation to perception of the Russian Federation by international actors at the international scene - all these are the influence spheres of the international media. The U.S. information warfare is a direct continuation of the theory of “psychological operations”, which was formulated in the 1950s and then refined during wars and military conflicts. Having been the “evil empire” in the past, Russia still remains to be one of the most important objects, to which this concept is applied. In addition to such important factor as the political confrontation the article studies factors which foster spread of inaccurate and false information: anti-intellectualism, media pursuit of development of an entertaining part, so called “sensationalism” and information overload of the present day. In order to resist the information external influence, on the one hand, Russia acts by means of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in particular by means of the embassies, on the other hand, in recent years the domestic media carrying out their activities in other countries in foreign languages have played a more active role in order to resist this tendency. Besides classical publications with false information there is another important issue which is called technological progress, as in the near future we will face a threat of production of visual statements which are created artificially, but it will look like real.