Whataboutism strikes again in Russia’s disinformation campaign to discredit the MH17 investigation
On June 19, the Public Prosecution Service of The Netherlands announced it will prosecute four suspects, three Russian…
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Renewed Focus on MH17: Russian disinformation review
Since 2015, EUvsDisinfo has collected over 120 pro-Kremlin disinformation cases on MH17. The disinformation ranges from blatant insults to the memory…
MH17 crash days: Russian trolls generated over 100K tweets, at least 65K to blame Ukraine
IRA trolls and MH17 Robert van der Noordaa and Coen van de Ven, journalists at De Groene Amsterdammer, analyzed…
How Kremlin media in Serbia infiltrated a disinformation hub in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sputnik is the only media with a presence in this hub which is owned by a state actor…
Disinformation and censorship: Two sides of the same Russian coin
Events escalated when two journalists were forced to resign after they had authored an article which relayed inside…
How the Kremlin steals foreign news to shape views of domestic audiences
In theory, the concept of Inosmi.ru could be a good idea. It offers a Russian reader first-hand insights…
How big is the Kremlin’s obsession with Ukraine? Spoiler: very big
Ukraine coverage in numbers In a discussion on Twitter initiated by Alexey Kovalyov, an editor at Meduza , commenters used the search…
How a pro-Kremlin disinformation outlet tailors content to different European audiences
First the hard data: News Front was established in November 2014 at the web host reg.ru. It was visited…
The Kremlin’s cyber contractors. Their motives and risks
How the Kremlin recruits hackers By spreading its ideology of “spiritual moral values” combined with “patriotism” Moscow gains…
The globalization of information warfare
Information warfare (IW), including specific forms of it like disinformation and deep fakes, has become a global fact…
The EU’s “concentration camps” in Ukraine: A сase of proactive disinformation
In April 2015, the message “Guantanamo Near Donetsk: Ukraine has been building a concentration camp for the separatists” headlined a…
Hybrid War in Ukraine – predictions for 2019 and beyond
Does the Hybrid War actually work? In the aftermath of the first round of the presidential election in…
Russian propaganda declares capacity to hack computers through mind control
The Soviet military developed the concept of “metacontact” in the mid-’80s and it has since been successfully used…
Always blame the West! – And other disinformation trends of the week
The Elites vs. the Losers The narratives in this category seek to instill an inferiority complex in…
“We’re not on TV right now — we can tell the truth,” says Russian TV host off-air
In the middle of a live-streamed marathon coverage of Sunday’s elections in Ukraine, Russian state TV host Olga…
Analysis: Among presidential candidates Poroshenko is the key target of hate speech on “Russian Facebook” VK
Interestingly, the study by Internews Ukraine reveals that pro-Kremlin candidates were also subjected to mostly negative coverage, while Ukraine and…
Prime-time news show on Russian state TV: One lie per minute
However, Mr. Kiselyov’s statements were picked apart already on the following day in an article titled “Dmitry Kiselyov’s…
Crimean limbo: How low can Russian propaganda go?
Ahead of the 5th anniversary of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, Russian state-funded RIA Novosti published an article…
“Ukraine will turn into a banana republic”: Ukrainian elections on Russian TV
Ukrainian presidential and parliamentary elections in 2019 will take place in the context of conventional and hybrid aggression…
Russian interference in Ukrainian elections: separating the wheat from the chaff
Russian narratives against Poroshenko and a strong desire to delegitimize elections It’s clear that Russia cares about Ukrainian…