It's not just Putin
There are many other bad actors in the game. Qatar for example, a nation of only 250k people, has spend an estimated $50B on influence campaigns in the West. Not just the creation and funding of Al Jazeera news which promotes their geopolitical world view, and the huge donations to American universities, but through massive social media bot and troll algorithms that spew overwhelming misinformation, especially to youth who largely get their information online and not from traditional news.
We live in a dangerous new propaganda world.