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Kseniya Kirillova: The reasoning for Putin’s high approval ratings among Russian diaspora

By Kseniya Kirillova, for GEO' Many researchers both in Russia and abroad note a high level of support for present-day Russian politics and...

Russian bots are just today’s slacktivists

By Jonas Kaiser, for NiemanLab “Scrambling to understand what had happened, we were looking for answers, and misinformation was the prime suspect:...

Fighting misinformation requires journalism, not secret algorithms

“Watching Silicon Valley exercise news judgment has been like watching Walter Cronkite try to write code in Python.” L. Gordon...

Subverting NATO from within

By Janusz Bugajski, for CEPA Unable to Prevent NATO Enlargement, Moscow Is Intensifying Its Campaign to Subvert Alliance Members From Within.   President Vladimir Putin views...

Journalists become media literacy teachers

By Colleen Shalby, for NiemanLab “We’ve been taught not to be the story, or divert from our priorities to inform the...

Formalizing newsrooms’ battle against disinformation

By Craig Newmark, for NiemanLab “I predict that newsrooms will put in place and uphold formal editorial policies that demand all...

Stanisław Żaryn: A hidden agenda behind Putin’s disinformation attack on Poland

By Stanisław Żaryn At the turn of the year, Vladimir Putin, along with other top Russian officials, carried out a massive disinformation campaign...

Monica Drake: A renewed focus on misinformation

By Monica Drake, for NiemanLab “As everyone focuses on granular accuracy, the media outlets that have a truly diverse and inclusive reporting...

Lies get further normalized

By Peter Bale, for NiemanLab “It’s no accident that academic and journalist Peter Pomerantsev’s first book, about the wild days of journalism...

A smarter conversation about how (and why) fact-checking matters

By Lucas Graves, for NiemanLab “The facts unearthed by reporters and other watchdogs are a resource for public action, but they tend...
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