Political trolling in Hungary
By Péter Krekó, András Rácz and Patrik Szicherle, for DisinfoPortal
With the 2019 Hungarian municipal elections approaching, disinformation campaigns and trolling activity will play an...
Disinformation in service of damaging relations with neighbors
Reports of organizations which research the phenomenon of disinformation point out to common technics and topics used by pro-Kremlin propaganda in media of countries...
Russian Media in Germany: Independent Journalism or Political Instrument?
By Institute for Statecraft
Contents
Preface
Information as a Weapon
2. The Russian Media: Instrument to Influence Politics and Society Abroad
3. The Russian Media Network in Germany
3.1....
In Belgium, the Sleeping Beauty awakes, but slowly
By Tim Pauwels, for DisinfoPortal
It might come as a surprise, but the land that hosts the European capital is still very much a blind...
Robotrolling 2019/3
By Dr. Rolf Fredheim, Belen Carrasco Rodriguez and John Gallagher, for NATO Stratcom Centre of Excellence
Executive Summary
In the period May—July 2019 bots accounted for...
Russia claims Baltic States never turned democratic
By Polygraph
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Twitter account
“In the early 90s the Baltic nations, after over 50 years of being a part of the #SovietUnion,...
Lega Nord’s Bedfellows: Russians offering illicit funding to Italian far-right party identified
By Christo Grozev, for Bellingcat
In a previous joint investigation with BuzzFeed News and the Insider, Bellingcat disclosed the inordinately frequent travel of two Italian...
Figure of the week: 55%
By EU vs Disinfo
Between May and July 2019, bots accounted for a staggering 55% of all Russian-language Twitter messages about the NATO presence in...
Fake news can create false memories
Fake news can influence our memories – prove the results of the research published by the Association for Psychological Science (APS, earlier known as...
How the (ro)bots follow celebrities and politicians
The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP) in London has recently published the results of the investigation about the authenticity of the accounts following...