EU East StratCom Task Force
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The EU’s East StratCom Task Force was set up by EU High Representative Federica Mogherini in 2015, in response to a request from all 28 EU Heads of Government to “address Russia’s ongoing disinformation campaigns”. It is a team of eleven communications and Russian language experts, who also seek to improve communication on EU policies towards the Eastern Neighbourhood and to strengthen media plurality in the region, especially in the Russian language.
The Task Force’s flagship products are its weekly Disinformation Review of pro-Kremlin disinformation stories and its social media accounts @EUvsDisinfo and EU vs Disinformation.
EU vs Disinfo: Data analysis and disinformation from insight to action in 2020
[editorial] The East StratCom Task Force running the website EU vs Disinfo is a part of the administration…
Pro-Kremlin TV shows got 26 million views on YouTube in 2019
While we can never be sure if all of the views, likes, comments, or shares come from real…
2019: The Russian disinformation roller coaster
Did you know that many Americans wanted Santa Claus to become female or gender-neutral? No? Good for you,…
What did not happen in 2019: Russia’s top absurd fakes of the year
The busiest man on the planet Based on the “reporting” of the pro-Kremlin media, financier George Soros must…
Russian disinformation review: Circling the Earth
Based on our research, we were able to come up with close to 30 countries where Sputnik has…
NATO CoE’s experiment: 54,000 inauthentic social media interactions bought for €300
To test the ability of social media companies to uphold their voluntary commitments and combat manipulative behavior on…
A catalog of the Kremlin’s worst fears: This week’s Disinfo Review
Accepting the truth can be scary for anyone, but in the case of pro-Kremlin disinformation, one observes a…
EU vs Disinfo registered 7,000 pro-Kremlin disinformation cases, 40% of them target Ukraine
Students at Lviv University who use Russian social networks will not pass their exams – that was the…
This week’s pro-Kremlin disinformation: bears and drugs and climate change
[editorial]The key topics of this week’s pro-Kremlin propaganda are climate change, doping scandal with Russian athletes, and the…
One world, one author, one chain of command: meet another Russian disinformation outlet
One World is just like all the above-mentioned registered and managed from Russia. A whois search shows that the…
Russia laundering its image to pin blame on someone else: Disinformation review
As if there weren’t enough problems in the world, the Americans are also taking a quick stroll in…
Singular turns plural in Russian media to fit Kremlin’s narrative
“They are always like that” “French media have noted Russia’s success in de-dollarisation,” so a headline said in a…
Gazprom Media’s double standards: Doing dirty jobs for the Kremlin
Smear documentary A smear documentary broadcast by NTV on 8 November manipulated Russian audiences to see conspiracies against their country…
A century of Georgia’s struggle against pro-Kremlin disinformation
[editorial] The basic methods of Russia’s hybrid warfare didn’t change since the 1920s. Its 100-year-old anti-Georgian narratives not…
“Who’s afraid of the brown stink bug?” Russian disinformation about a lab in Tbilisi
A very well-known piece of wisdom of all media in the world is: keep your stories close to…
EU vs Disinfo’s disinformation review: In the cards this week
The Queen of Clubs Queen of Clubs: A charismatic woman who is in a position of power Moscow…
Why Facebook is more revealing on nudity than on Russian disinformation
Even though Facebook and the Russian government have their Brussels offices next door to each other, they appear…
Pro-Kremlin disinformation machinery this week: Whataboutism at its best
This week was a masterclass of the pro-Kremlin media’s expert tactics of distraction, moral relativism, and whataboutism: that…
Disinformation tricks and pro-Kremlin treats: Halloween week’s Russian propaganda
The suggestion is as ridiculous as it is sinister. It plays into the larger pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative targeting…
Attacking Ukrainian church: The Kremlin turns the Orthodox world into a battlefield
Moscow-based South Front is generally publishing content on military issues, but among maps of Syria and praises of…