Disinformation review: twenty years of distorting the media
The Russian writer Andrey Arkhangelsky, featured earlier on our website, writes in an essay (in Russian) how the…
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Ten embarrassing moments in Russian disinformation of 2019
Don’t Mention Crimea! References to the invasion of Crimea were removed from the Russian edition of Yuval Noah…
EU vs Disinfo: Data analysis and disinformation from insight to action in 2020
2019 marked the year where data analysis became an integral part of EUvsDisinfo’s work to support the objective…
Pro-Kremlin TV shows got 26 million views on YouTube in 2019
While we can never be sure if all of the views, likes, comments, or shares come from real…
In combatting Russian disinformation, BBC news standards don’t work, Tsybulenko says
“In the struggle with Russian disinformation, the so-called ‘BBC standards’ of journalism not only do not work but…
2019: The Russian disinformation roller coaster
Did you know that many Americans wanted Santa Claus to become female or gender-neutral? No? Good for you,…
What did not happen in 2019: Russia’s top absurd fakes of the year
The busiest man on the planet Based on the “reporting” of the pro-Kremlin media, financier George Soros must…
Russian disinformation review: Circling the Earth
Based on our research, we were able to come up with close to 30 countries where Sputnik has…
A catalog of the Kremlin’s worst fears: This week’s Disinfo Review
Accepting the truth can be scary for anyone, but in the case of pro-Kremlin disinformation, one observes a…
EU vs Disinfo registered 7,000 pro-Kremlin disinformation cases, 40% of them target Ukraine
Students at Lviv University who use Russian social networks will not pass their exams – that was the…
This week’s pro-Kremlin disinformation: bears and drugs and climate change
The polar bears are doing just fine! It has been an unusually “green” fall season. This week, delegates…
One world, one author, one chain of command: meet another Russian disinformation outlet
One World is just like all the above-mentioned registered and managed from Russia. A whois search shows that the…
Russia laundering its image to pin blame on someone else: Disinformation review
As if there weren’t enough problems in the world, the Americans are also taking a quick stroll in…
Singular turns plural in Russian media to fit Kremlin’s narrative
“They are always like that” “French media have noted Russia’s success in de-dollarisation,” so a headline said in a…
Gazprom Media’s double standards: Doing dirty jobs for the Kremlin
Smear documentary A smear documentary broadcast by NTV on 8 November manipulated Russian audiences to see conspiracies against their country…
“Who’s afraid of the brown stink bug?” Russian disinformation about a lab in Tbilisi
A very well-known piece of wisdom of all media in the world is: keep your stories close to…
EU vs Disinfo’s disinformation review: In the cards this week
The Queen of Clubs Queen of Clubs: A charismatic woman who is in a position of power Moscow…
Pro-Kremlin disinformation machinery this week: Whataboutism at its best
This week was a masterclass of the pro-Kremlin media’s expert tactics of distraction, moral relativism, and whataboutism: that…
Revision of History: How Russian historical propaganda justifies occupation of entire south-eastern Ukraine
"Russian historical propaganda is not only misinformation and fake news. It is much more complicated. It uses a…
Disinformation tricks and pro-Kremlin treats: Halloween week’s Russian propaganda
The suggestion is as ridiculous as it is sinister. It plays into the larger pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative targeting…