In Soviet times, Moscow sent out a single ideological message to the world; now, the Kremlin sends carefully targeted messages to different groups, an eclectic approach that makes it vastly more effective than its Soviet predecessor,...
Belittling Ukraine’s navy Last Sunday two of Russia’s most viewed TV channels told their audiences that the three Ukrainian vessels, which had been captured by the Russian side in the naval clash in the Azov Sea, represented one-third...
More than a year ago, Russian media started publishing claims of “Ukraine deepening the seabed for a NATO fleet at the Azov Sea.” In fact, no evidence to any such “NATO fleet” can be found. During the last summer...
At publishing time, the online database of EU vs Disinfo contains 4,564 disinformation cases. The agency has been collecting and debunking the fake news and propaganda stories since 2015. Most of the items in the database are...
Vladimir Putin’s agitprop now offers two different versions of the war against Ukraine, one “for the unconditionally dense and a second for the nominally intelligent.” The first is delivered to the mass Russian television audience;...
“A lie is halfway around the world before the truth has even got its boots on,” said Mark Twain. Or perhaps it was Winston Churchill? As the New York Times points out, this quote has been attributed to many different authors. However,...
A child-trafficking ring run from a pizza-parlor basement by the US Presidential candidate and her team – who would believe this stuff? In the midst of the US Presidential campaign in 2016, quite a few people did. And some even...
The stories published by Russia Today have clear signs of distorting the facts as they state that “Ukrainian ships entered Russian waters in the Black Sea illegally” while in reality, the bilateral treaty between Russia and...
Who needs digital technologies when kitchenware can help you produce disinformation? It now appears that a pot was put on the head of the person whose voice was used to perform the role of a Ukrainian pilot, claiming that his country was...
Tailored for disinformation heavy users: Conspiracy theories on Biological Weapons Just to highlight some examples: 2016: The US is constructing secret biological labs in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Ukraine to attack Russia. 2017:...
Recently, British media reported that half of the Russian diaspora in the UK are informants of the special services (SVR, GRU, and even the FSB). This revelation was based on a misinterpretation of a report about the scale of Russian...
