Thursday, September 19, 2024

How The Wall Street Journal is preparing its journalists to detect deepfakes

By Francesco Marconi and Till Daldrup, for NiemanLab “We have seen this rapid rise in deep learning technology and the question is: Is that going...

Heavyweight megaphones of disinformation in Eastern Ukraine

By EU vs Disinfo Sunday 11 November was a tricky day for the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign, on two fronts. In Ukraine, the Russia-backed separatists held illegitimate elections...

Fake: Poland Leaving the EU

European Union bursting at the seams, Poland ready to leave, announced Ukraina.ru, RIA and TASS on October 11, claiming that Warsaw was poised to...

Love conquers truth: New romantic comedy by RT chief Simonyan spins Crimea drama

By Robert Coalson, for RFE/RL Even back when construction of the controversial, $3.7 billion Crimean Bridge was just beginning, RT Editor in Chief Margarita Simonyan already...

Alaska purchase: Kremlin’s trolls suggest a refund

By EU vs Disinfo Wheels were turning last week in the St. Petersburg troll factory. Its very own news agency, RIA FAN, published a statement by...

Figure of the Week: 6 million

By EU vs Disinfo Since its illegal annexation in 2014, Russian authorities have tried hard to restore Crimea’s image as a holiday hotspot — including by faking...

Russian Foreign Ministry Says Austrian Officer Was Baselessly Accused of Spying for Moscow, But...

By Polygraph Sergei Lavrov Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs “The Russian side stressed the unacceptability of the practice of making public unsubstantiated accusations, which runs counter to...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: What steps should the West take to stop Russian subversion efforts?

NEW PUBLICATION akub Janda, director of the European Values Think-Tank, has published a new article recommending immediate steps the West should take to thwart Russia’s hostile influence...

Russian Defense Ministry evades accusations of ‘unsafe’ flyby

By Polygraph Russian Ministry of Defense "On November 5, 2018, at about 10am on-duty airspace control aircraft spotted an unidentified air threat over the neutral waters...

Disinformation and the Dirty Work

By EU vs Disinfo What is worse? To spread lies or to prevent others from telling the truth? The organisation controlled by the Russian businessman...