Disinformation in 2019: Ten Embarrassing Moments
By EU vs Disinfo
Disinformation is a serious global threat to democracy.
However, disinformation is not always the result of a powerful
actor’s well-coordinated plan. In some cases,...
Lies get further normalized
By Peter Bale, for NiemanLab
“It’s no accident that academic and journalist Peter Pomerantsev’s first book, about the wild days of journalism...
Fake: US and Ukraine Preparing New Chornobyl for Russia
Russia is facing a new Chornobyl disaster warned Tsargrad, a television station affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church and Russia’s security forces. The US...
A smarter conversation about how (and why) fact-checking matters
By Lucas Graves, for NiemanLab
“The facts unearthed by reporters and other watchdogs are a resource for public action, but they tend...
Syria accuses Americans of supporting IS after U.S. helped free most of country from...
By Polygraph
Walid MuallemSyrian Foreign Minister“The Americans are using ISIS as a scarecrow. At the same time they are feeding ISIS, encourage them, protect...
‘Russian world’ should be understood as ‘infectious psychiatric disorder,’ Altufyev says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
The Russian world has been defined and approached from many different directions, with some arguing that it includes...
Top targets of the pro-Kremlin media in Arabic in 2019: The fight against terrorism...
By EU vs Disinfo
As the year comes to an end, here is an overview of the strategy of pro-Kremlin media vis-à-vis their audiences in...
Geneva Overholser: Death to bothsidesism
By Geneva Overholser, for NiemanLab
“In day-to-day political reporting, the Times is hopelessly stuck in the past. Its proud allegiance...
Ukraine Violates Treaties: StopFakeNews with Marko Suprun (No.267)
Polling proves that Ukraine is ready to capitulate because reporting by Russia’s Defence Ministry TV channel Zvezda never lies and Ukraine violated the Budapest...
Fake: NATO Preparing for War with Russia
NATO has begun preparations for a full scale war against Russia, scores of Russian sites declared as 2019 was drawing to a close. The...