Facebook has blocked the post of Mykola Oleshchuk, Ukraine’s Lieutenant General and Air Force Commander, congratulating Ukrainian radio engineering troops with their professional holiday, according to the Air Force Command of...
UPDATE. At publication time, the mentioned pages were already banned by Facebook. A fake Ukrainian patriotic FB page: case study Texty.org.ua noticed paid ads of strange pages, consisting of a very patriotic photo often showing soldiers at...
The beginning Our research shows that the disinformation campaign began on 24 August 2020 in a French-language blog. We were able to detect 16 websites spreading articles linked to the forged letter of the European Commission...
Journalists at the Belarusian State Channels started a strike on 17 August. Alyaksandr Lukashenka reacted with almost immediately firing everybody and requesting Russia to send “shtreykbrekhers“, strike-breakers, to Belarus....
In a striking case of déja vu, pro-Kremlin media is seeking to muddy the waters surrounding the suspected poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny just like it did in 2018 with the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal....
The initial awkward “wrinkles”, like when the Belarusian state media claimed that Russian Wagner group militants traveled to Belarus to destabilize the situation there ahead of the presidential elections, have been smoothed...
“C’mon, let’s ignore!” The English-language segment of pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets is surprisingly indifferent towards the ongoing events in Belarus. With a few exceptions, most seem to avoid the topic....
Pro-Kremlin pundits and outlets exclude any thoughts of protests as an expression of public discontent. The protests, claims state-owned Russian news agency Sputnik, are nothing but foreign influence operations; thousands of foreign...
“A color revolution, instigated by the Anglo-Saxons/America/the West” – is the knee-jerk reaction of pro-Kremlin media whenever crowds gather in the streets to protest corruption, government abuse and curbing of civil...
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...
In October 2022, nearly two weeks before the Ukrainian Army liberated Kherson, Russian soldiers parked several school buses next to the Regional Art Museum named after Oleksii Shovkunenko. Over four days, the invaders loaded their vehicles...
