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Latest news Ukraine

Former Florida cop turned Kremlin operative, spreading Russian propaganda through over 200 fake news websites

John Mark Dougan fled to Moscow in 2016 after facing charges in Florida, then received political asylum and now coordinates GRU-funded servers running AI models.

byOlena Mukhina

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Digital occupation: Russia deploys AI army of bots on Telegram for promoting Kremlin’s propaganda narratives

They sound human and post nonstop.

byOlena Mukhina

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Musk spreads fake news about alleged USAID funding celebrity visits to Ukraine

Ukraine's anti-disinformation agency identifies Russian-origin fake news spread by Elon Musk on X platform.

byYuri Zoria

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Russian fake news surge on social media: “Bakhmut has fallen”

The Russian occupiers have begun disseminating new disinformation on social media, posting messages alleging a defeat in Bakhmut…

byKate Ryabchiy

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Chinese state media spread Russian propaganda about Ukraine war

Russian disinformation narratives about “Ukrainian Nazism” and foreign influence are widely disseminated in China’s state-run media and through…

byTexty.org.ua

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Fake info about “Ukrainian saboteurs” in Crimea in 2016 could have prompted Russian invasion of Ukraine

The reason for Russia’s accusations was a shootout that occurred near Armiansk (northern Crimea) on the night of…

byKseniya Kirillova

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War in Donbas

5 years of war: separating facts from fiction

Kyiv attacked Donbas “Ukrainian soldiers are killing people in Donbas” – this is one of ORDLO’s favorite propaganda…

byRadio Liberty

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Hybrid War

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…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

Vladimir Putin with Gerhard Schröder, former Chancellor of Germany (1988-2005) who became top GAZPROM representative and lobbyist of Putin's interests in the country after leaving his government position. The term "shroederization" now stands for the corruption of Western elites by the Putin regime.

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Putin regime has set up not one but five ‘fifth columns’ in Germany, Eidman says

In the third article of his series on Moscow’s influence operations in the West, Igor Eidman says that…

byPaul A. Goble

World War III: Putin's hybrid war against Western democracies using the Russian secret services, propaganda journalism and corruption of foreign elites.

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Moscow propaganda tries to hide that Kremlin interests and Russia’s are antithetical, Eidman says

Russian sociologist Igor Eidman has posted the second in a promised series of articles exposing the falsehoods contained…

byPaul A. Goble

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Putin winning support from far right as well as far left with custom-targeted propaganda, Eidman says

In Soviet times, Moscow was able to attract support from the far left in other countries; but under…

byPaul A. Goble

How hybrid war fake narratives reshape the agenda of Ukrainian TV amid presidential election: Report

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Hybrid War

Two Ukrainian TV channels push Russian propaganda amid presidential election: report

StopFake's newest research analyzes the content of talk shows on two Ukrainian opposition TV channels, NewsOne and 112.…

byYuri Zoria

Facebook removed 364 propaganda pages and accounts of Russian origin

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Hybrid War

Facebook removed 364 propaganda pages and accounts of Russian origin

In short, Facebook has managed to identify 364 pages that claim to be independent news pages, but in…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

Top absurd Russian fakes: What did not happen in 2018?

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Top absurd Russian fakes: what didn’t happen in 2018

What a year it’s been! 2018 will go down as the year NASA successfully landed a probe on…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

Seven Commandments of Fake News – New York Times exposes Kremlin’s methods

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Seven commandments of fake news: New York Times exposes Kremlin’s methods

A child-trafficking ring run from a pizza-parlor basement by the US Presidential candidate and her team – who would believe this…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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Moscow outlined ‘information spetsnaz’ techniques over a decade ago, Shtepa says

In the wake of the Helsinki summit, Moscow’s state information service Russia Today baldly declared that “Russia has…

byPaul A. Goble

What's in common in Russian approach to MH17 crash and fake news

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Fake concern about “fake news” is a part of Kremlin’s deception strategy

A crucial part of Russian propaganda is also deception game about serious counter-disinformation activities and faking the concern…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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PACE resolution supports EUvsDisinfo, suggests setting up anti-disinformation observatories

A Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe resolution adopted on 25 April 2015 supported the EU's anti-disinformation service, EUvsDisinfo,…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Why are the Dutch demanding to shut down the EU’s only anti-propaganda service?

What is EUvsDisinfo? The East StratCom Task Force, or EUvsDisinfo, is an operational working group on strategic communications…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Hybrid War

You can’t fight disinformation in the EU without naming its main source – Russia

1. This report, which was prepared by 39 experts over several months, does not bring much new knowledge…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor