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Russian disinformation
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ISW: Russia seeks to incite protests among Ukrainian POWs’ relatives
Russian actors are encouraging relatives of Ukrainian POWs to protest, claiming that the Ukrainian leadership is blocking their return.
France accuses Russia of fake news campaign after debunked mercenary strike
France's defense minister has slammed what he called Russian fake news aimed at discrediting French nationals fighting alongside Ukraine.
Spiegel: Russia behind massive disinformation campaign to undermine support for Ukraine in Germany
The German Foreign Ministry has uncovered a large-scale and systematic disinformation campaign, orchestrated by Russia, that aims to sow discord and distrust among Germans.
Massive Russian disinfo campaign targeted former Ukraine’s Defense Minister on TikTok
A joint DFRLab and BBC Verify investigation has exposed a Russian disinformation operation on TikTok that used about 12,800 accounts to falsely accuse Oleksii Reznikov, former Defense Minister of Ukraine, of corruption.
Ukraine’s Intel: Russia plans to accuse Ukraine of selling Western weapons to Hamas
Russia intends to launch a disinformation campaign to stop Western military aid to Ukraine.
ISW: Russia seeks to disrupt Western support for Ukraine via disinformation
Despite the UK denying plans to send military instructors to Ukraine after earlier comments, Moscow insists the Western support for Ukraine escalates the.
“We will kill them all”: Why Russia’s war against Ukraine is genocide
Russia’s intent is clear, and its crimes fit all five criteria of the UN’s definition of genocide.
Twitter removes restrictions on Russian government accounts – The Telegraph
Twitter removed the limits related to the reach of Russian state media organizations and lifted restrictions on Kremlin-linked…
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…
Why Jordan Peterson is wrong about Ukraine
Professor Jordan Peterson can easily claim the title of an “internet celebrity.” While having a background in clinical…
Russia’s Kramatorsk “retaliatory strike” is an information operation – AFU and journalists
Ukrainska Pravda reports, referencing Suspilne, as well as Ukraine’s Ukraine’s Eastern Group of Forces spokesman Serhiy Cherevaty, Reuters…
Moscow again using and trapped by conspiracy theories to justify Russia’s fight against the West, anthropologist says
[editorial] Soviets frequently used conspiracy theories to justify their confrontation with the West during the Cold War. The…
Putin regime has three basic ideas, all taken from Leningrad’s back alleys and the KGB’s torture chambers, Eidman says
[editorial]Putinists worldview is founded on three fundamental paranoid ideas, according to the Russian sociologist Igor Eidman. Putin and…
Russian disinfo on social media: “Zelenskyy and western embassies fled Kyiv, US sabotaged Nord Stream”
Russian disinformation on social media proves that it can flexibly adapt to recent developments in the war. With…
Meet the foreign journalists promoting Russia’s war propaganda
Journalism plays a key role in the war in Ukraine. On-site reporting of the devastation and causalities wrought…
How Russia ran a fake darknet “Javelin shop” for its “Ukrainian weapons black market” myth
The Russian “investigations” of Western weapons allegedly sold on the black market were based on screenshots of advertisements…
Taken out of context: CBS documentary claims on Ukrainian military aid going missing debunked
In August 2022, CBS released its documentary on military aid to Ukraine, filmed in April. The film…
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…
Only 53% of Kadyrov’s troops in Ukraine are ethnic Chechens
Ukraine’s intelligence service has established that only 53 percent of the men who are listed as volunteers from…
Russian propaganda in war: fake “fact-checkers,” far-right conspiracies, and distracted progressives
Since the onset of the February invasion, both the West and the Kremlin were then taken aback by…