Even the FSB knows you won’t believe it—so Russia now lies only to Russians
A Ukrainian military intelligence official maps how Russian disinformation flipped—from flooding Ukraine to feeding Russians.
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Russia fabricated an arrest of Ukraine’s first lady—the named agencies deny it
Russian state-owned media disseminated the false claim, referring to unnamed "security structures," and the Ukrainian agencies say none of it is real.
Russia’s “Doppelgänger” network floods France with 200 fake news sites ahead of 2026 elections, Ukrainian watchdog says
Over 140 sites clone real French outlets, twist stories to push Kremlin-friendly themes.
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.
Digital occupation: Russia deploys AI army of bots on Telegram for promoting Kremlin’s propaganda narratives
They sound human and post nonstop.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…