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WP: Russia’s strategist and troll army wages info war against US support for Ukraine, leaked documents show

Kremlin strategists aim to convince Americans that the US has higher homelessness levels than Russia and urge to redirect Ukraine aid to the homeless, implying the US is becoming a “Third World country,” per leaked documents

byVira Kravchuk

MH17 crash days: Russian trolls generated over 100K tweets, at least 65K to blame Ukraine

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Hybrid War

MH17 crash days: Russian trolls generated over 100K tweets, at least 65K to blame Ukraine

IRA trolls and MH17 Robert van der Noordaa and Coen van de Ven, journalists at De Groene Amsterdammer, analyzed…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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

Belarus (green), Ukraine (yellow) and Russia (red)

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Belarus already under Russian troll attack designed to give Moscow a base for further aggression

Belarus meets all three requirements as a target for a hybrid war and then use it as a…

byPaul A. Goble

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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

A painting of Trump, Putin and French far-right leader Marine Le Pen prominently displayed at a Trump party in Moscow hosted by Kremlin functionaries to celebrate his election as US president, which was facilitated by Russia's covert meddling. Russia's meddling in French elections six month later to help Le Pen backfired and she lost to Emmanuel Macron. November 2016, Moscow, Russia (Image: mogaznews.com)

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Moscow inserts political operatives into African countries where elections are scheduled

Even as the United States and other Western countries wrestle with the question of how involved Russian operatives…

byPaul A. Goble

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International

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…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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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Containment of Putin’s Russia in today’s globalized world won’t be easy or even enough

Ever more people are calling for the containment of Putin’s Russia and some are even celebrating that the…

byPaul A. Goble

American media taking money from shady men (Image: nr2.com.ua)

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Kremlin propaganda successfully exploiting five American vulnerabilities, Kirillova says

Lenin said that Marxism was powerful because it was true; his successors in the Kremlin have been as…

byPaul A. Goble

Putin in a propaganda video by RT (Russia Today): "This is the choice of British people" (Image: screen capture).

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Putin using Western values to destroy the West, Moscow analyst says

Moscow commentator Andrey Malgin delivers a warning that no one should ignore: Vladimir Putin, he argues, “will use…

byPaul A. Goble

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Kremlin trolls are engaged in massive anti-Ukrainian propaganda in Poland

Warsaw — Kremlin “trolls” have launched a massive campaign to discredit Ukraine and Ukrainians in the Polish Internet…

byRadio Liberty

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Internet, not TV, now Moscow’s main propaganda channel for Baltic countries, Lithuanian expert says

Moscow now views the Internet as its primary propaganda channel in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania because that medium…

byPaul A. Goble

The photo of a little girl receiving the metal of her father, Andriy Matviyenko, killed in the Donbas, that was massively blocked by Facebook "for nakedness."

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Facebook representative to visit Ukraine

Popular Ukrainian users of Facebook who are increasingly being blocked on the social network are convinced that this…

byUkrainian media sources

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Russian government Internet trolls effective in forming pro-Putin opinion among youth

Many assume that Russians who turn to the Internet will form very different opinions about Vladimir Putin than…

byPaul A. Goble