Grant information was posted by the US Department of State’s Office of International Affairs. The agency proposed to issue a grant to an organization with experience “in countering Russian misinformation.”
According to Anton Morozov, a member of the State Duma’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, the reasons for the appearance of such grants are due to the fact that the US authorities are not coping effectively with the COVID-19 pandemic.
“They are trying to show that they have no worse than in Russia, and to prove accordingly that in Russia there are allegedly some falsifications related to statistics on COVID-19. But the grant itself, I think, will provoke a lot of new fakes and unproven information, ”RT said.