"The website hasn't been updated since 19 November, a few days after EU Disinfo Lab first announced its discovery of the network.

The BBC tried calling the phone number on the Times of Geneva's website, but it has been cut off. Its YouTube channel has been disabled and its Twitter account suspended."

Is this how your regular news outlet would behave in reaction to EU Disinfo Lab announcement?

They are pretending to be official outlets, according to the article.

> EU Disinfo Lab's investigation started by looking at EP Today, a website which claimed to be an online magazine for the European Parliament in Brussels.

> EU Disinfo Lab, which is an independent NGO, traced the servers behind the website to Srivastava Group.

These are sites produced en masse with names that belonged to defunct newspapers or confusingly close to existing ones (“Times of Los Angeles”). Surely that fits the definition of fake.