 There was always this sort of looming sense of paranoia as to why he was talking to me and no longer being aggressive and hostile like he is with other reporters. Mackenzie Sadeji is AI and foreign influence editor at NewsGuard, an organization that rates news sites for trustworthiness. She's the author of a recent NewsGuard report about Dugan and his network. She and her colleagues have linked around 170 sites to him and describe him as a key player in Russian disinformation operations.