Pro-Putin Propaganda Flows Onto Android via Google Loophole

Google says it has worked hard to disrupt the ability of Vladimir Putin’s government to use its services to spread disinformation since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. But a widely used Android service called Discover continues to serve up misleading propaganda to Russian audiences.

Discover appears as a feed of content within the Chrome browser on Android devices. Horoscopes can be mixed in with video game reviews and news articles, all rendered similarly, featuring a big picture and, in tiny print, a source. Many of the sites that surface here, though, have an...