Website: 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.
Amid the continuous military escalation at Ukraine’s borders, Russian state-controlled media continue to cultivate disinformation narratives about imminent or even ongoing atrocities against the population in Donbas. All obviously,...
From its illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014 and its ongoing military aggression against Ukraine, Russia has waged a sustained and coordinated state-controlled disinformation campaign targeting the Russian population,...
Ukraine is no infrequent target of pro-Kremlin disinformation. Out of the more than 13,500 cases identified, cataloged, exposed, and debunked by EU vs Disinfo since 2015, Ukraine is mentioned in more than 5,200. That’s nearly...
Ukraine remains Russian propaganda’s top target Roughly one-third of all the recorded cases of pro-Kremlin disinformation collected by EUvsDisinfo this year targeted Ukraine. Amid the continuous escalation of Russia’s military...
Against this backdrop, the EU Commission has called for EU member states to approve an extended sanctions regime against the Belarusian authorities; the Polish authorities have been forced to increase the number of soldiers and...
COVID-19 continues to be a popular topic for the producers of disinformation: This week EU vs Disinfo documented several cases spreading lies about vaccination – A biochemical attack on humanity by globalists. On the other...
Last week, YouTube deleted RT’s German-language channels over violations of the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy and its terms of service. This resulted in pro-Kremlin media both pouting over the decision...
Disinformation cases collected this week consider, among others, Belarus. They include rather uneasy narratives such as hybrid war facing the country; West planning to tear Belarus away from Russia; and the evil West engaging...
Almost in unison, Russian and Chinese state-controlled media outlets continue to draw direct (and false) parallels between Afghanistan and Ukraine/Taiwan, alleging that after Afghanistan it was only a matter of time when the...
The Kremlin leadership has cultivated a special brand of “Dolchstosslegende” since the collapse of the Soviet Union 30 years ago. The leader of the powerful Investigative Committee, Aleksandr Bastrykin, claimed in 2016 that...
First stereotype: Ukrainians are very poor Some Europeans viewed Ukraine as extremely poor. Many Ukrainian refugees were surprised to learn that. “They perceived us almost like we are cave people who do not know and have not seen...
