Regulating online hate will have unintended, but predictable, consequences
By Garth Davies, Sarah Negrin, for The Conversation
The Canadian government is currently holding consultations on a new online hate bill. This bill would update Bill C-36, which...
‘Comrade Hitler’ and Other Russian Fantasies
By Sergej Sumlenny, for CEPA
For over a decade, Russian society has been bombarded with hardcore, revanchist propaganda. The West did not take note.
A typical...
Russian attitudes to Ukrainians can help to explain the atrocities
By Kseniya Oksamytna, for The Conversation
Speaking to journalist Sophie Raworth on the BBC’s Sunday Morning show recently, former war crimes prosecutor Sir Howard Morrison, now an...
When Words Kill – From Moscow To Mariupol
By EU vs Disinfo
For the first time, the world will observe the International Day for Countering Hate Speech on 18 June. This follows the UN General...
Another Shade Of Hate
By EU vs Disinfo
Disinformation, accompanied by hate speech, continues to pour out of Russian state-controlled outlets. This week we saw another variety: in an apparent...
Ben Dubow: The Textbook War
By Ben Dubow, for CEPA
Indiscriminate shelling has destroyed Ukraine’s physical infrastructure, but Russian operations also focus on a less visible target: history textbooks.
Occupation forces...
Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine invasion is the world’s first full-scale cyberwar
By Yurii Shchyhol, for UkraineAlert
Ever since the dawn of the Internet Age, the potential to weaponize digital technologies as tools of international aggression has been...
Why Azov is not a “neo-nazi battalion”
By Gala Sklyarevska, for Detector Media
A volunteer battalion for several months in 2014 and later a part of the National Guard, Azov has become...
Fake: Ankara Considers Crimea Turkish and Wants to Take the Peninsula from Russia
Turkey has often stated that Ankara does not support Russia’s annexation of Crimea, but rather supports Ukraine’s territorial integrity. Turkey has absolutely no pretensions...
Fake: Turkey Wants to Seize Part of Russia, Crimea and Donbas
Russian media continue to actively propagate disinformation about Ukrainian-Turkish relations and the relationship between Ankara and the Kremlin. On February 12 several pro-Kremlin publications...