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…
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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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
BBC: How the “DNR” special services & troll factory scare Russians with terror attacks
Masked faces, distorted voices, poses from action movies and ready-to-use firearms – the Russian-language Internet is full of…
Seven things you should know about pro-Kremlin disinformation
1) Pro-Kremlin disinformation can look like just another news story Claims made in pro-Kremlin fake news stories are…
Inside RT and Sputnik: What is it like to work for Kremlin’s propaganda media?
As awareness about the issue of disinformation grows globally, those working for RT and Sputnik find themselves under…