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Why Russia demonizes Ukrainian diasporas

By Vic Satzewich, Ivan Kozachenko, for The Conversation We’re now almost into the fifth month of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and one of the...

Four ways you can design social media posts to combat health misinformation

By Anna Feigenbaum, Ozlem Demirkol Tonnesen, for The Conversation It’s no secret that online misinformation has been a big problem throughout the pandemic. Of course,...

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...

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...

Edward Lucas: History Matters

By Edward Lucas, for CEPA But not as much as you think Are we living in 1914 or 1939? Or 1918? These seemingly abstruse questions are...

Imperial myths and genocidal realities: 100 days of Putin’s Ukraine War

By Nestor Barchuk, for UkraineAlert The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been made possible by one of the most comprehensive disinformation campaigns in world history. For...

Shrinking Russia Seeks China’s Aid

By Kseniya Kirillova, for CEPA The complications of the Russia-China axis are deeper than they look, and probably involve a future of Kremlin kowtowing. Russia and...

Russian Propagandists Regain Footing on Ukraine

By Thomas Kent, for CEPA Russian information outlets are recovering from a bad start. How can they be countered?  Russia’s invasion of Ukraine stunned not only...