Militarised Disinformation: When Highway Renovation becomes a Western Attack “to the East”
By EU vs Disinfo
This week, the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign zoomed into Europe. Its magnifying glass focused on highway D1 in the Czech Republic, connecting...
Kremlin Watch Briefing: How sanctioned Russians are benefitting from the World Cup
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The Brexit campaign had close links to Russia and its ambassador to the UK
According to Donald Trump, Crimea is a part of Russia because...
StopFake #189 with Marko Suprun
Fake: Ukraine does not want to claim its POWs from Occupied Territories; Ukrainian soldiers wearing Russian uniforms spotted in Donbas; UN condemns persecution of...
There’s a big difference between the number of people who worry about fake news...
Plus: Facebook looks to hire “news credibility specialists,” and Reuters tries to figure out if highly partisan sites are gaining traction in and outside...
Perceived accuracy and bias in the news media
By Knight Foundation
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Gallup and Knight Foundation’s 2017 Survey on Trust, Media and Democracy found that Americans believe the news media have a...
Fake: Ukraine Does Not Want to Claim its POW’s from Occupied Territories
Kyiv is not interested in freeing Ukrainian citizens who were taken prisoner by the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics (DPR, LPR). This claim...
What makes people distrust science? Surprisingly, not politics
By Bastiaan T Rutjens, for Aeon
Today, there is a crisis of trust in science. Many people – including politicians and, yes, even presidents –...
‘Captain Calamity’ recognizes the Donetsk People’s Republic
By Polygraph
Tsargrad
News outlet owned by Kremlin-linked oligarch Konstantin Malofeev
"The People's Republic of Donetsk is recognized by the Scottish island of Forvik, which previously announced...
Misinformation and biases infect social media, both intentionally and accidentally
By Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Filippo Menczer, for The Conversation
Social media are among the primary sources of news in the U.S. and across the world. Yet users...
Russian media focus on ‘first ever’ decline in number of white Americans
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
Russian media outlets are giving prominent play to a report by the US Bureau of the Census that “for...