Saturday, September 21, 2024

They speak Russian in Crimea, but that doesn’t make it part of Russia

By Peter Dickinson, for Atlantic Counsil US President Donald Trump made headlines ahead of the recent G7 summit in Canada by calling on his colleagues...

In the U.S., the left trusts the mainstream media more than the right, and...

By Antonis Kalogeropoulos and Richard Fletcher, for NiemanLab s Facebook moves to privilege “broadly trusted” sources in its News Feed, our research — more of which...

Internet users fed up with fake news

Source: Reuters Institute / BBC Fewer and fewer people use Facebook as the source of information and the platform to discuss them. The reason is...

Anatomy of a Russian ‘troll factory’ news site

By Aric Toler, for Bellingcat When browsing through stories on the newly-established media outlet USAReally.com, you may think that you are reading a procedural-generated site...

Figure of the Week: 0

By EU vs Disinfo The downing of flight MH17 has been one of the most lied-about events in recent years, and the disinformation campaign surrounding the tragedy...

Fake: Serbian Defense Ministry Calls Euromaidan a Coup

Several Russian media outlets claim that the Serbian Defense Ministry and therefore the country itself consider Euromaidan a coup d'état  (Pravda news, Rambler  and...

Improving the Western strategy to combat Kremlin propaganda and disinformation

By Anton Barbashin, for Atlantic Counsil Read the Publication (PDF) Since Putin’s annexation of Crimea and military aggression in Donbas—and especially since the 2016 US presidential...

Baltic Brutality?

By EU vs Disinfo A dark image of the Baltic states was (again), painted in pro-Kremlin disinformation this week. Firstly, the Latvian Army was accused of...

Fake: Ukrainian Parliamentary Speaker Called Neo-Nazi and Anti-Semite

What is a Kyiv Neo-Nazi doing in the French National Assembly, French MPs want to know – blared French Sputnik’s headline last week. The...

Putin and Trump understand propaganda; their liberal opponents don’t, Moscow commentator says

By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia An anonymous commentator on Telegram’s Red Zion channel who was picked up today by Novyye izvestiya says that both Vladimir Putin...