Friday, September 20, 2024

Russian influence operations on Twitter

By Alex Krasodomski-Jones, Carl Miller, Jamie Bartlett Josh Smith, Agnès Chauvet, for Demos On 17 October 2018 Twitter released two previously unseen datasets: nine million tweets from...

Ukraine under information fire

By EU vs Disinfo 2018: Assessing the damage  Ukraine tops the EUvsDisinfo database as the most frequent target with 461 references among a total of 1,000 disinformation cases reported in...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: Borrowing Russian money has a cost

Topics of the Week Read a detailed overview about the loan provided by the First Czech-Russian Bank to France’s far-right National Front and how it eventually became...

Russian op-ed smears Ocasio-Cortez, mistaking memes for actual quotes

By Polyhraph Dmitry Kosyrev Political commentator, Russia Today "’In 1941, the Germans dropped an atomic bomb on us’: who now rules in the U.S.” Source: Ria Novosti, December...

Disinformation in 2018: Twelve embarrassing moments

By EU vs Disinfo Disinformation is a serious problem. It is used by the Kremlin as a means of gaining power in Russian domestic and foreign...

NASA disinvites Russian: Who is the biggest loser if space partnership with Russia unravels?

By Polygraph Pavel Vinogradov Russian Cosmonaut “This not fraught with anything for Russia; rather, (it is) for NASA and the USA.” Source: NSN.ru, January 5, 2019 FALSE Roscosmos will face...

2019: A year when fake news gets intimate and everyone disagrees on everything

Be Laura Hazard Owen, for NiemanLab The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard...

Fake: Ukrainian Presidential Elections Will be Illegitimate

Russia’s propaganda machine has declared Ukraine’s upcoming March 31 presidential elections illegitimate before they have even taken place, claiming the country’s Foreign Ministry “has...

Fake: Ukraine Preparing New Provocation in Kerch Strait

Russian propagandist media have launched a new wave of fakes claiming Ukraine is preparing “a new provocation” in the Kerch Strait, the body of...

Russian agents in Western media

By Oleksandr Danylyuk, for International Policy Digest The exposure of a journalist of the German magazine, Der Spiegel, Claas Relotius, who falsified materials for his...