U.S. protests incite racist words, mockery from Moscow
By Polygraph
Komsomolskaya PravdaRussian national tabloid"In the news, they are now are talking about the first people killed and even raped in Minneapolis."Source: KP.ru, June...
Exploiting crisis and denying responsibility
By EU vs Disinfo
This week, focus of the world media is on America where demonstrations against racial injustice sweep across the nation, leading to...
Trump’s antifa tweet: conflation and confusion
By Polygraph
Donald TrumpU.S. President“The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.”Source: Twitter, May 31, 2020MISLEADING
Protests erupted in the city...
Brian Whitmore: Propaganda labs
By Brian Whitmore, for CEPA
Covid-19 Has Revived the Freddy Krueger of Kremlin Disinformation Narratives
For years, Kremlin-backed media and surrogates have been vilifying laboratories in...
Figure of the week: 23.2%
By EU vs Disinfo
Almost one-fourth of Russians (23.2%) consider the COVID-19 pandemic a fiction, concocted by the “interested parties”, Russian media reports. An additional 9%...
Propaganda backfire: the Kremlin’s conspiracy theories undermine its own authority
By Kseniya Kirillova, for Byline
By supporting theories aimed at destabilising the US during the Coronavirus pandemic, Kseniya Kirillova reports on how Putin has opened...
Chinese disinfo hits U.S. biolab with new COVID-19 conspiracy
By Polygraph
Global Times“Days before the institution's (Fort Detrick laboratory) temporary shutdown in 2019, a respiratory illness was reported on June 30 at a community...
Fake: Ukraine to Revise the EU Association Agreement Due to its Inequality
This week Russian media announced that Ukraine is about to revise its Association Agreement with the European Union. They came to their senses six...
A bad day in court for NS2: litigation, disinformation, and Russia’s energy weapon
By Alan Riley, for CEPA
Nord Stream 2 is in battle mode. The Russian-German gas project appears to be applying every possible legal argument and...
The Malthusian straw men
By EU vs Disinfo
How pro-Kremlin outlets use cheap rhetorical tricks
A straw man is a rhetorical trick, used in polemical debate. You attack your opponent, refuting arguments,...