 At its heart is a former American policeman named John Mark Dugan. For me, it's a game and a little payback. For months, I've been texting with Dugan, whose words are spoken by an actor. He denies having anything to do with information operations. He says he hasn't been paid anything by the Kremlin, and his email and bio even popped up in a story on one of the dozens of fake news websites we've been tracking.