The rhetorical means of straw men is the Kremlin’s go-to trick in any polemical debate. A straw man is the method of attacking views or ideas, never expressed by the opponent. In the past, pro-Kremlin media have labelled its opposition...
An otherwise mediocre mouthpiece of state-sponsored pro-Kremlin disinformation, “BaltNews” did something remarkable last November. In just one headline – “The first color revolution in the USSR took place in Lithuania”- it...
Read also: Over 3000 Russian propaganda cases registered by EU disinformation watchdog in 2020 The War on Sputnik V But some things do not change: The pro-Kremlin media continue to support conspiracy theories around the pandemic, like the...
Read also: Ten embarrassing moments in Russian disinformation of 2019 1. A polite poisoner The Navalny case is, of course, a major embarrassment for the Russian state. Not the attack, of course; the Kremlin would not blink before deciding...
A recurring theme in EU vs Disinfo’s Figure of the Week section this year was Facebook taking down accounts and pages that mislead the public about who they were and what were they doing. In January, one of such networks was found...
2020 is finally almost over. For many, this has been a challenging year, which brought not only a global pandemic but also an infodemic: an unprecedented flood of false or inaccurate information about the coronavirus. Unfortunately,...
A Moldova-based fact-checking website StopFals found that multiple pro-Kremlin media outlets carried a story claiming that the European Union was in negotiations with the Russian developer of the Sputnik V vaccine. In order to promote...
True to tradition, we bring our what-did-not-happen-this-year list. It demonstrates the lavish collection of literally unbelievable events and impossible predictions that did not materialize, no matter how hard the pro-Kremlin media tried...
And it is the season for Christmas Disinformation Cases! All the cozy little lies about Europe, canceling Christmas, repeated faithfully every year! EUvsDisinfo has collected disinformation for five years, and the pro-Kremlin media’s...
Information laundering is a process within an information influence campaign. Through the process of ‘laundering’ hostile actors try to legitimize deceitful information through a network of intermediaries. They apply a set of...
On 23 June 1978, a Soviet police officer came to the house of a Crimean Tatar Musa Mamut to escort him to a meeting with a prosecutor. Mamut was legally not allowed to live in Crimea, due to his nationality. In fact, he had just returned...
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