In the past—these operations go back to the 1930s—a GRU agent at the time, named Igor Gouzenko, left the Soviet embassy in 1945 with a suitcase full of information. In it were the names of dozens of Canadians who were directly collaborating with the Soviets at the time. Among them were journalists.
This has not changed. Russia actively seeks out journalists in western countries who are aligned with them, in order to help amplify those narratives. Justin Ling, a Canadian journalist, wrote a piece, I think about two years ago, about how the Russian government and the Russian embassy go about this, trying to pitch stories to Canadian journalists, some of whom have taken the bait and amplified those narratives. We can see some of these narratives being amplified in our mainstream media. We've been seeing that for the past decade.