Fake: Soldiers and Children Dying in Donbas because of Ukrainian Mines
On October 1, 2018 the deputy commander of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) operational command Eduard Basurin announced that as a result of...
Figure of the Week: 10
By EU vs Disinfo
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has seen a coordinated disinformation campaign targeting its referendum on changing the name of...
Don’t feed the Kremlin’s trolls!
By Corina Rebegea, for CEPA
Old tropes about American hegemony, Western neo-colonialism, and hypocrisy appear constantly on Kremlin-friendly outlets in Romania (such as Sputnik and...
RT top manager plagiarised his dissertation
By EU vs Disinfo
The news director of RT America, Mikhail Solodovnikov, plagiarised substantial parts of the Ph.D. dissertation he defended in 2011.
This was the...
Fear and hatred: how propaganda persuades with emotion
Kseniya Kirillova, for Integrity Initiative
As Russian propaganda and disinformation spread around the world, more and more initiatives are being created to expose the lies...
Americans feel they can best distinguish news from opinion in local TV news; worst,...
By Christine Schmidt, for NiemanLab
Only 43 percent of Americans find it easy to distinguish opinion from news on digital news sites or social media,...
Russian Church spokesman falsely compares Ukrainian Church to Nazis
By Polygraph
Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)
Bishop of Russian Orthodox Church and Head of the Department of External Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church
“The Ukrainian authorities want...
Fake: Norwegian Diplomats Recognize Crimea as Russian
A diplomatic delegation from Norway arrived with an official visit to Crimea declared scores of Russian headlines on October 3. RIA Novosti, Channel Five,...
StopFake #203 with Marko Suprun
Fake: Kyiv gives up Crimea. Hungarian Foreign Minister threatens Ukraine with NATO troops. Ukraine responsible for dangerous emissions in Crimea. Ukrainian President’s wife finds...
Kremlin Watch Briefing: Bellingcat has identified Skripal suspect as GRU agent, the Kremlin continues...
Topics of the Week
Ruslan Boshirov, one of the two suspects in the Skripal poisoning, has been identified as a GRU colonel by investigators from Bellingcat.
A new...