Arming Ukrainian Grandmothers: StopFakeNews with Marko Suprun (No. 253)
Fake: Ukrainian grandmothers to be armed with machine guns so they can defend themselves against Russia. Ukraine is becoming a nuclear burying ground and...
Facebook Oversight Board
Sources: TechCrunch, CNBC, Business Insider
In the middle of September, Facebook published a charter, in which it announced creation of an independent Facebook Oversight Board....
Russian diplomatic Twitter accounts rewrite history of World War II
By Eto Buziashvili, for DFRLab
Official Twitter accounts amplified the hashtag #TruthAboutWWII in an effort to justify the Soviet Union’s signing of the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression...
False: Russian claim Georgia denied USNS Yuma entry to its Black Sea port
By Polygraph
Avia.pro
Russian news agency
“The Georgian authorities are not giving a U.S. Navy transport permission to enter their country’s territorial waters.”
Source: Yandex.ru, September...
Attack on Skripal and chemical attack in Syria are linked by one thing –...
Functioning in the internet, using social media, being a member of closed topic groups, we put ourselves at risk of being a target of...
Scorching the Earth with disinformation
By EU vs Disinfo
The scorched-earth tactics sometimes prove successful in conventional warfare. How does it work in the disinformation world?
207 years ago Moscow burst...
Fake: Poland shares responsibility for starting WWII
Russia usually engage its whole state apparatus in its propaganda actions, creating one consistent front of disinformation. In the last days, we could have...
Defending democracy through media literacy
By Jakub Kalenský, for Disinfo Portal
This is the transcript of a speech given by Jakub Kalenský at the International Workshop on Defending Democracy through...
Figure of the Week: 37
By EU vs Disinfo
For pro-Kremlin social media the Yellow Vest protests were 37 times more important than the protests in Moscow.
The Russian local election and the protests in...
Snowden about Russia: they love peace and freedom of speech
Edward Snowden gave Franc Inter an exclusive interview which was entirely broadcasted on Monday 17th September 2019, but its excerpts were published earlier.
The former...