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.
Tracing five years of pro-Kremlin disinformation about MH17: Infographic
This Wednesday, 17 July, marked the five-year anniversary of the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 and the…
Russian cosmonaut claims she spotted Ukrainian bombs in the Donbas from space
“I think it is an exaggeration” In the course of the following day, several Russian and Ukrainian media…
How Russian propaganda outlets manipulate comments dubbing them in Russian
How did that happen? “Complete misrepresentation!” The trick is simple: If you don’t speak Russian, and the interview…
How much do pro-Kremlin outlets earn on disinformation?
With over 1.9 bn registered users every month, YouTube has become a battlefield for audience attention. Pro-Kremlin outlets take part…
Kremlin propaganda narratives share similarities in Strache and Skripal cases
Just as with the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, pro-Kremlin outlets have also disseminated numerous narratives and…
Renewed Focus on MH17: Russian disinformation review
Since 2015, EUvsDisinfo has collected over 120 pro-Kremlin disinformation cases on MH17. The disinformation ranges from blatant insults to the memory…
The Chornobyl disaster and the power of story-telling: Russian propaganda around HBO miniseries
The show caused a variety of reactions, from approval and enthusiastic comments on the one hand to criticism about how the…
MH17 crash days: Russian trolls generated over 100K tweets, at least 65K to blame Ukraine
IRA trolls and MH17 Robert van der Noordaa and Coen van de Ven, journalists at De Groene Amsterdammer, analyzed…
How Kremlin media in Serbia infiltrated a disinformation hub in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sputnik is the only media with a presence in this hub which is owned by a state actor…
Disinformation and censorship: Two sides of the same Russian coin
Events escalated when two journalists were forced to resign after they had authored an article which relayed inside…
How the Kremlin steals foreign news to shape views of domestic audiences
In theory, the concept of Inosmi.ru could be a good idea. It offers a Russian reader first-hand insights…
How big is the Kremlin’s obsession with Ukraine? Spoiler: very big
Ukraine coverage in numbers In a discussion on Twitter initiated by Alexey Kovalyov, an editor at Meduza, commenters used the search function on…
EU elections update: Russian propaganda’s long game
First, a reminder: Russia’s disinformation campaign against the EU – and by extension, its electoral process – has…
If 52.8% don’t fit into the story about 10.3%, Russian propaganda just ignores them
On April 28th, RT wrote: “A Bertelsmann Foundation study found that right-wing parties with a populist, nationalist or Euroskeptic bent…
How a pro-Kremlin disinformation outlet tailors content to different European audiences
First the hard data: News Front was established in November 2014 at the web host reg.ru. It was visited…
The EU’s “concentration camps” in Ukraine: A сase of proactive disinformation
In April 2015, the message “Guantanamo Near Donetsk: Ukraine has been building a concentration camp for the separatists” headlined a…
Russian propaganda declares capacity to hack computers through mind control
The Soviet military developed the concept of “metacontact” in the mid-’80s and it has since been successfully used…
Always blame the West! – And other disinformation trends of the week
[editorial]Of course, Russian propaganda couldn’t miss the opportunity to spread its Ukraine-related narratives amid the Ukrainian presidential…
“We’re not on TV right now — we can tell the truth,” says Russian TV host off-air
In the middle of a live-streamed marathon coverage of Sunday’s elections in Ukraine, Russian state TV host Olga…
Analysis: Among presidential candidates Poroshenko is the key target of hate speech on “Russian Facebook” VK
Interestingly, the study by Internews Ukraine reveals that pro-Kremlin candidates were also subjected to mostly negative coverage, while Ukraine and…