Kremlin Watch Briefing: Russia created fake independent news sites in the Baltics
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State-owned Russian news agency financed three seemingly-independent news sites in the Baltic countries that were instructed to produce pro-Kremlin content.
Michael Carpenter: “Russia’s manipulation of...
Fake: US Tells Ukraine to Give Up on Crimea
Moskovskyi Komsomolets and other Russian media featured stories based on an American magazine article claiming that the US is telling Kyiv to give up...
UK’s Skripal evidence obliterates hollow Russian propaganda
By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake
The morning after the OPCW confirmed that Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley had been poisoned by novichok in the...
Potemkin Videos
By EU vs Disinfo
The story about Russia’s 18th Century “Potemkin villages” is well known also outside Russia.
When Catherine the Great travelled with foreign dignitaries to inspect the...
Fake: Ending Trade with Russia is Killing Ukraine’s Economy
Ukraine’s economy will not survive cutting off trade with Russia declared Ukrainian MP Vadim Rabinovich. A member of the pro-Russia Opposition Block faction, Rabinovich...
Russian State TV Channel Airs New Program Devoted to Putin
By VOANews
MOSCOW — A Russian state-owned television channel has a new weekly current affairs program devoted to President Vladimir Putin.
The first episode of "Moscow. Kremlin....
Non-Google search engine launches a news module based on “diverse, quality sources”
By Laura Hazard-Owen, for NiemanLab
Look, it’s completely understandable that you might feel like skipping a story about Bing, the Microsoft-owned search engine that has a...
Disinformation and Paranoia
By EU vs Disinfo
Do Russians actually believe the disinformation they see on the national TV channels? Or do they rather take it with a...
2018 Ranking of countermeasures by the EU28 to the Kremlin’s subversion operations
By European Values
This report is a follow-up to the Overview of countermeasures by the EU28 to the Kremlin’s subversion operationsconducted by the European Values Think-Tank and...
‘Fake news’ is in the eye of the beholder: China is centralizing efforts to...
By Oiwan Lam, for Global Voices
A new state-run platform is now centralizing efforts to stop online “rumors” in China.
This is a significant step for China, where any...