Friday, September 6, 2024

Disinforming with a pot on your head

By EU vs Disinfo Modern digital technology can make it almost impossible to discern disinformation from facts. For example, computer games now look so authentic that Russian state...

What have tech companies done wrong with fake news? Google (yep) lists the ways

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...

Tolstoy’s Resurrection

By EU vs Disinfo Ukrainian language is artificial, as are Ukraine’s borders. In fact, Ukrainians are just Russians. These statements do not come from a “troll”...
Фейк: Крым побил рекорд постсоветского периода по количеству туристов

Fake: Crimea Beats Record Post-Soviet Records for Number of Tourists

Taking stock of this year’s vacation season in Russian-annexed Crimea, Moscow’s occupation authorities declared that the 2018 season beat all post-Soviet records with more...

StopFake #206 with Marko Suprun

Fake: Ukraine’s military preparing sabotage in Crimea. Ukrainian army deploys Polish soldiers in Donbas. Mass shooting in Crimea: Russia blames Ukraine. Tiny Turkish Church...

Russian reporter fibs about Ukrainian delegation at the Council of Europe

By Polygraph Olga Skabeyeva Russian talk show co-host “People rallied, with bloodshot eyes, pronounced these words, looking me in the eye: ‘Death to the enemy, death to...

Fake: Ukrainian Army Deploys Polish Soldiers to Donbas

NATO-equipped Polish mercenaries deployed to Donbas – this headline was emblazoned across several separatist web sites last week, (Regnum, Novorossia, Luganskyi Informacionnyi Centr, News...

Like the devil reads the Bible

By EU vs Disinfo “Danish scholars conclude that RT has ‘exceptional influence’ in social media”. This was the title of a recent story published by the Russian state-controlled...

Gazprom promises China a supply of natural gas it cannot deliver

By Polygraph Alexei Miller Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors, CEO Gazprom, Russia “Miller emphasized that Gazprom is discussing with China an increase in deliveries...

Mass Shooting in Crimea: Russia Blames Ukraine

The October 17 shooting at a college in Kerch in Crimea claimed 21 lives according to Russian authorities, 50 students were wounded. Well before...