2019: A year when fake news gets intimate and everyone disagrees on everything
Be Laura Hazard Owen, for NiemanLab
The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard...
Fake: Ukrainian Presidential Elections Will be Illegitimate
Russia’s propaganda machine has declared Ukraine’s upcoming March 31 presidential elections illegitimate before they have even taken place, claiming the country’s Foreign Ministry “has...
Fake: Ukraine Preparing New Provocation in Kerch Strait
Russian propagandist media have launched a new wave of fakes claiming Ukraine is preparing “a new provocation” in the Kerch Strait, the body of...
Russian agents in Western media
By Oleksandr Danylyuk, for International Policy Digest
The exposure of a journalist of the German magazine, Der Spiegel, Claas Relotius, who falsified materials for his...
The focus of misinformation debates shifts South
By Peter Cunliffe-Jones, for NiemanLab
“In complex tinderbox societies, the potential for mis- and disinformation to sow not just social discord but real violence is...
Checking facts and fighting back: Why journalists should defend their profession
By Raymond J. Pingree, Brian Watson, Mingxiao Sui, Kathleen Searles, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Joshua P. Darr, Martina Santia, Kirill Bryanov
Published: December 10, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208600
Abstract
Bias accusations...
Year in review: 1001 messages of pro-Kremlin disinformation
By EU vs Disinfo
“Lies and blatant fabrications” – this was how the British government described Russia’s clumsy attempt to conceal its hand in the nerve agent attack...
Putin’s ‘language of truth’ constantly fails fact-checking
By Polygraph
Franz Klintsevich
Ranking member of the Russian Federation Council’s Defense Committee
“The Russian president always speaks with the people solely in the language of truth,...
Fake: Ukraine to Punish Speakers who Refuse to Use Ukrainian
Legislation on the use of the Ukrainian language and resolutions or programs aimed at strengthening the use of Ukrainian are fertile fodder for the...
2018 in Figures
By EU vs Disinfo
2018 has been a busy year for the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign, with Russian trolls and media working hard to spread falsehoods...