Good thing that the media and their multiple layers of fact-checkers and editors didn't fall for the Russian's evil plan. They have learned a lot since the 30's and the Cold War.
Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not. One of the worst things to come from modern media is that editors do not fact check because they want to break the story before anyone else and fact checking takes time.
This has lead to tons of quiet retractions.