Thursday, March 6, 2025

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The Agency

From a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid “trolls” has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet —...

How a NY Car Insurance Salesman Became a Geopolitical Expert for Kremlin Media

Introducing  Eric Draitser, he’s a Brooklyn College graduate, lives in New York. His LinkedIn profile says he is a car insurance salesman. Mr. Draitser...

Russia Steps Up Propaganda Push With Online ‘Kremlin Trolls’

Deep inside a four-story marble building in St. Petersburg, hundreds of workers tap away at computers on the front lines of an information war,...

Dying in Secret: The Ethics of Investigating Russia’s Ukraine Casualties

Russian opposition blogger Ruslan Leviev and his small team of investigators have released a new investigation into the deaths of three Russian soldiers who...

The Putin paradox: distrusted, feared, and yet revered

The recent failure of opinion polls ahead of the British elections has sparked much soul-searching in Westminster circles. Pollsters, we are told, have eroded...

Russia Today’s interview on immigrants detention centres in UK faces inquiry

Media watchdog has threatened RT with statutory sanctions after repeated breaches of broadcasting regulations on impartiality. Russia Today is facing a new investigation by media...

Has “The Nation” Turned into a Putin Propaganda Forum?

The Nation magazine, a sharply left-wing publication, is runand semi-owned by Katrina vanden Heuvel, a wealthy left-wing heiress. That means she can do whatever...

Rediscovering America’s voice

  Ideas matter. They matter so much that they cause seismic shifts in history. Extremist ideas foster revolutionary fanatics so beholden to ideology that attempting...

Aric Toler, Bellingcat: The question should be “why has it taken so long to...

What is wrong with a new Russian 'leaked' report concerning Malaysia Airlines Boeing crash? StopFake.org talked to Aric Toler, contributor at bellingcat.com. Aric, you mentioned...

Russia’s pro-Putin media darling loves his new life in Brooklyn — minus the hipsters

His father is a multi-millionaire media mogul who has called Vladimir Putin the "father of the nation." At 24, he founded LifeNews, a news...