Facebook takes down 122 Russian military intel accounts that targeted Ukraine
Tactical Evolution The operation was characterized by greater tactical sophistication aimed at circumventing Facebook’s monitoring capabilities and obscuring…
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The best defense is good offense: this week’s pro-Kremlin disinformation
Pro-Kremlin Coordinated Efforts on Disinformation The new coronavirus epidemic is dominating the news this week, and this is…
Nostradamus and coronavirus: How Russian propagandists use names of seers to push own narratives
More .ru than Ukraina The online news portal Ukraina.ru has been operating from Moscow since June 2014 –…
Pro-Kremlin disinformation this week: Groundhog day
The Kremlin’s historical revisionism about World War II and the Holocaust shows no signs of losing steam, with…
Russian MP blames US for warm winter, country’s media spread his message unchallenged
Climate in pro-Kremlin media EUvsDisinfo has earlier documented how different climate conspiracy theories have appeared in pro-Kremlin media.…
Russian propaganda’s “conspiratorial” virus: disinformation review
As the news about a previously unknown respiratory virus – which has already claimed over 100 lives –…
In their war on remembrance, Kremlin historians denigrate Poland to whitewash USSR
The participants of the talk suggest that Russia should insist that the war did not start 1 September…
Kremlin propaganda this week: “Let’s hate Poland!”
As the target of more than 15 cases this week, Poland is still in the cross-hairs of pro-Kremlin…
Kremlin propagandist doubting the religion of denial
The pro-Kremlin media started its well-oiled disinformation machinery along well-known narratives: profit-hungry Ukrainians used an old, derelict aircraft,…
Disinformation review: twenty years of distorting the media
The Russian writer Andrey Arkhangelsky, featured earlier on our website, writes in an essay (in Russian) how the…
Russian disinformation review: Circling the Earth
Based on our research, we were able to come up with close to 30 countries where Sputnik has…
Russia laundering its image to pin blame on someone else: Disinformation review
As if there weren’t enough problems in the world, the Americans are also taking a quick stroll in…
Pro-Kremlin disinformation machinery this week: Whataboutism at its best
This week was a masterclass of the pro-Kremlin media’s expert tactics of distraction, moral relativism, and whataboutism: that…
Russian propaganda around annexation of Crimea doesn’t stop
Read also: “Someone said that the referendum in Crimea was legitimate” in Russian news Macron is “aware” Earlier this…
How Russian propaganda denies a suspected chemical attack in Syria
Three core messages Immediately after the reports of a suspected chemical attack in Syrian Douma appeared, Russia reignited…
Flight MH17 three years on: getting the truth out of Eastern Ukraine
Very detailed evidence Now, almost three years after, very detailed evidence has been gathered about the event. The…
“Poisoning” by headlines: how Russian disinformation keeps spreading
Several Russian-language outlets reported that visitors of the “Green Day” festival in the Ukrainian city of Oleshky (Kherson…
Whistleblower shares insights on workings of Russian state-controlled media
According to Mr Skorobutov, the management put pressure on him not to report an alleged attack by a…