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American actor and musician Johnny Depp visited Russia last week as part of a European tour with the rock band Hollywood Vampires. The Russian media, including official government outlets, extensively covered Depp’s visit.Some of the reports turned out to be fabrications -- in particular, the reports that he had a car accident in S. Petersburg and private dates with 40 Russian girls in Moscow, for which the girls had to pay $1,000 each. Both reports were false, yet they crossed the Atlantic to appear in the English language media.In the article published this past March headlined How Did an Itty-Bitty Piece of Russian Propaganda Wind Up in Slate?
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