Monday, September 16, 2024

Fake: Kyiv ‘Not Ready’ for Prisoner Exchange with Russia

Kyiv has no intention of exchanging prisoners with the Kremlin – is one of Russia’s classic disinformation narratives about Ukraine which Moscow has been...

Delusions of freedom: the US far right and the Kremlin

By Kseniya Kirillova, for Integrity Initiative One of the pillars of Putin’s political system is confrontation with the outside world and the search for enemies....

Russia’s Use of Media and Information Operations in Turkey

By Katherine Costello, for RAND Copyright: RAND Corporation Availability: Web-Only Pages: 19 DOI: 10.7249/PE278 Document Number: PE-278-A Year: 2018 Series: Perspectives Russian media have sought to undermine Turkey's political and security cooperation with...

Fake: Hasidim Rape Underage Girl in Uman

Several web sites circulated a fake story during the celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year in the central Ukrainian city of Uman,...

“God-level trolling” – Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maria Zakharova promotes debunked Internet...

By Eliot Higgins, for Bellingcat Following the recent publication of information about the two suspects in the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal a number of...

Americans expect to get their news from social media, but they don’t expect it...

By Christine Schmidt, for NiemanLab Forty-two percent of Democrats say the news they get on social media has helped their understanding of current events, compared...

Figure of the Week: 50

By EU vs Disinfo French government think tanks have issued 50 recommendations to combat “information manipulations.” The recommendations are part of an exhaustive new study published by the...

Edward Lucas: Threads of the past

By Edward Lucas, for CEPA Edward Lucas seams together a Soviet chic garment and the Kremlin’s inability to deal honestly with history. Nazi memorabilia is not...

Russian propaganda fakes ‘praise for Hitler’ by Ukrainian Speaker Parubiy

By Halya Coynash, for Human Rights in Ukraine Russia has been caught brazenly fabricating a ‘scandal’ around invented praise of Adolf Hitler by Andriy Parubiy,...

Russian Police Say the Election Day Was ‘Calmest,’ After Clamping Down on Country-wide Protests

By Polygraph Ministry of Internal Affairs (Police), Russia “In general, the situation during the united Election Day remained calm.” Source: RIA-Novosti, September 9, 2018 FALSE Scores detained during the...