Photo: Des Moines Register's China Watch paid content was cited by President Trump as Chinese interference. (Supplied)
ABC News Online: US mid-term elections: Inside Moscow and Beijing's attempts to influence voters
In the lobby of Sputnik, one of the foreign media outlets accused by US intelligence of being involved in Russian election interference efforts, a familiar Australian face is on the television.
It shows Sputnik's sister television channel Russia Today running an interview with veteran Australian journalist John Pilger.
Mr Pilger's widely discredited allegations shifting the blame for the Sergei Skripal poisoning from Russia to England make him popular on the station.
For US intelligence though, Russia Today and its radio and online outlet, Sputnik, are part of a broader interference campaign designed to undermine trust and promote division in the west.
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WNU Editor: The media budgets and coverage costs during U.S. election cycles involves hundreds of millions (if not billions) in monies being spent. Both Russia and China still have a long way to go before they can influence U.S. elections. But they are trying .... just like everyone else.
