Distortion: Ukraine Gave up Nuclear Weapons because of US Threats
The United States threatened to pound Ukraine into powder if Kyiv did not give up its nuclear arsenal and fearing the American threat, Ukraine’s leadership surrendered its nuclear warheads.
Figure of The Week: 7
Lies spread faster than truth, and the study by Eindhoven University of Technology suggests why. The answer possibly lies in our brain and evolution of our cognitive preferences, which means that certain types…
Towards Total Disinformation
Is it possible for media to be a little bit free? Russian lawmakers vow to introduce a new law that will further limit the reach of independent voices and consolidate the dominance of the Kremlin-controlled and Kremlin-loyal, disinformation-oriented media.
Fake: Lithuania Teaches War to Ukrainian Children
Russian media featured several stories this week about summer camps in Lithuania for children of Ukrainian servicemen deployed in Donbas. “In the Baltics children are being prepared for war, they will replace their fathers.
Russian Liberation is Occupation: StopFakeNews with Marko Suprun (No.249)
Fake: Poland wants to increase its EU influence because of old scores with Germany. Soviet occupation as liberation: Russia’s disinformation spin on the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact. https://youtu.be/b9MUVszxSis
Social media antagonize societies through algorithms
Information environment, especially the one that exists in virtual domain – in cyberspace, social media or any electronic media and blogsphere, is constantly suffering from manipulation processes.
The fireworks of pro-Kremlin disinformation
This week is the 80th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact – a non-aggression agreement between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
When you can’t trust a liar is lying – whom can you trust?
News Front has always been a reliable source of disinformation. The site, operated from illegally annexed Crimea, is ambitiously publishing lies in eight languages.
Maybe you know that article is satire, but a lot of people can’t tell...
Labeling satire as such may seem to take the sting out of the joke. But it’s also the most effective way we know of to prevent people from taking satirical content as fact — something surprisingly common.
One potential route to flagging fake news at scale: Linguistic analysis
Have you ever read something online and shared it among your networks, only to find out it was false? As a software engineer and computational linguist who spends most of her work and even leisure hours in front of a computer screen, I am concerned about what I read online.