GTA 6 Russia ban story shows signs of Russian disinformation

Reports that GTA 6 could be banned in Russia emerged from a news story published on Jan. 14 on news.ru, a Russian news website. (We have omitted direct links to news.ru from this story, as the website was consistently blocked by one of our threat detection security apps.) The story claims that news.ru conducted an interview with Mikhail Ivanov, deputy chairman of the World Russian People’s Council and member of the Bryansk Regional Duma, in which the politician criticized Rockstar for including offensive material in its upcoming game.