Friday, September 20, 2024

Few people are actually trapped in filter bubbles. Why do they like to say...

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

Russian Foreign Ministry Distorts Ukraine Famine Legacy

By Polygraph Russian Embassy in Canada Official Russian Foreign Ministry Twitter Account “#Famine in 1930's in USSR was common tragedy for Ukrainians, Russians, Kazakhs, other Soviet people....

Russian troll factory expanded and harassing independent press

By Fatima Tlis, for Polygraph Alexandr Rogers Commentator “Khodorkovsky's puppets are fulfilling an order from the West, trying to sabotage Russia's defense industry. But that is...

StopFake #213 with Marko Suprun

Fake: European Court of Human Rights rules that Ukrainian sailors held by Russia are not POWs. Russian annexed Crimea MP addresses UN. Ukraine becomes...

Fake: NATO Brigade Arrives in Donbas

At the beginning of December several Russian publications disseminated fakes claiming that a NATO brigade had arrived in the Donbas. Ukraina.ru, Luhanskyi Informatsionnyi Centr,...

American blogger’s Ukraine martial law theory, shared on RT is flawed

By Polygraph Patrick Lancaster Patrick Lancaster, Video Blogger in Donbas “If someone looks at a map of the areas that he’s put martial law in affect, these...

Russian Independent TV vs. Kremlin TV: 3-0

By EU vs Disinfo “Everyone does it, so what’s the problem?”  The notion that Western countries themselves run state-orchestrated disinformation campaigns is a popular pro-Kremlin defensive...

Russia’s long-term disinformation plan for the Azov Sea

By EU vs Disinfo The moment when the disinformation campaign around the Azov Sea started was not when Russia seized three Ukrainian vessels and their...

Anatomy of a Russian media escalation

​By Polygraph Point of View The latest escalation in the Sea of Azov provides a case study of how Russia’s vast state disinformation apparatus is employed...

Fake: Ukraine Becomes Drug Entry Point for Russia and Europe

Last week Russia’s Interior Ministry announced that Ukraine has become a regional leader for drug trafficking. Kirill Smurov, the Deputy director of Russia’s Interior...