“Russia did not… (and anyway, there is no proof)” In addition to these old classics, this week brought a new disinformation pearl. You know how people sometimes express themselves and only later realize that their words could have...
The pro-Kremlin media can never resist playing up the “color revolution” theme. The West is thus accused of destabilizing Belarus on the eve of its election. Hong Kong’s new security law – which the EU has warned “risks seriously...
The most recent example came earlier this month when the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs praised a book, published by an obscure Malaysian author, claiming that the “Jewish Antichrist Illuminati” were responsible both for the MH17...
A key concept in Nineteen Eighty-Four is “Newspeak.” A language designed by the novel’s IngSoc English Socialist Party to eliminate the people’s ability to express dissent. Orwell describes the principles of newspeak in an essay:...
Read also: The real reason the Kremlin will never completely disown the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact In late May, Aleksey Zhuravlyov, member of the Russian parliament, introduced a motion (ping) to denounce the Soviet Parliament’s...
Just a few weeks later, on the 11 June, the “netizens,” as active participants of online communities are called, delivered. Another YouTube video presented “continuous revelations from the netizens,” cataloging a “growing...
Dealing with disinformation is often psychologically draining – both for its creators as well as for those fighting against it. To be constantly immersed in lies and distortive half-truths, unmoored from reality, takes a toll on us all....
Last week’s cases take us on a frenzied ride through several topics that have been preoccupying the pro-Kremlin media over the last several weeks and months: coronavirus, protests, historical revisionism, MH17, Ukraine, NATO…...
This time, the kick-off came from the Twitter account of the Russian embassy in Estonia, sharing an article from Russia Beyond titled “Why the Baltic was a great place to live under the Soviets“. The article itself, based constructed...
Lack of trust Lack of trust was the key thesis of the 15 May 2020 online discussion. Anne Applebaum, American author and historian, stated that the line of political demarcation is no longer between dictatorships and democracies. The main...
“The poor are deprived of resources, consumption, social relations and connections. Creating and reproducing the relevant collective social ideas and behavioral practices, they are prone to paternalism, a convenient object of...
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