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…
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How Kremlin media in Serbia infiltrated a disinformation hub in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sputnik is the only media with a presence in this hub which is owned by a state actor…
Disinformation and censorship: Two sides of the same Russian coin
Events escalated when two journalists were forced to resign after they had authored an article which relayed inside…
How the Kremlin steals foreign news to shape views of domestic audiences
In theory, the concept of Inosmi.ru could be a good idea. It offers a Russian reader first-hand insights…
How big is the Kremlin’s obsession with Ukraine? Spoiler: very big
Ukraine coverage in numbers In a discussion on Twitter initiated by Alexey Kovalyov, an editor at Meduza, commenters used the search function on…
EU elections update: Russian propaganda’s long game
First, a reminder: Russia’s disinformation campaign against the EU – and by extension, its electoral process – has…
If 52.8% don’t fit into the story about 10.3%, Russian propaganda just ignores them
On April 28th, RT wrote: “A Bertelsmann Foundation study found that right-wing parties with a populist, nationalist or Euroskeptic bent…
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…
The Kremlin’s cyber contractors. Their motives and risks
How the Kremlin recruits hackers By spreading its ideology of “spiritual moral values” combined with “patriotism” Moscow gains…
The globalization of information warfare
Information warfare (IW), including specific forms of it like disinformation and deep fakes, has become a global fact…
The EU’s “concentration camps” in Ukraine: A сase of proactive disinformation
In April 2015, the message “Guantanamo Near Donetsk: Ukraine has been building a concentration camp for the separatists” headlined a…
Hybrid War in Ukraine – predictions for 2019 and beyond
Does the Hybrid War actually work? In the aftermath of the first round of the presidential election in…
Russian propaganda declares capacity to hack computers through mind control
The Soviet military developed the concept of “metacontact” in the mid-’80s and it has since been successfully used…
Always blame the West! – And other disinformation trends of the week
The Elites vs. the Losers The narratives in this category seek to instill an inferiority complex in…
“We’re not on TV right now — we can tell the truth,” says Russian TV host off-air
In the middle of a live-streamed marathon coverage of Sunday’s elections in Ukraine, Russian state TV host Olga…
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…
Analysis: Among presidential candidates Poroshenko is the key target of hate speech on “Russian Facebook” VK
Interestingly, the study by Internews Ukraine reveals that pro-Kremlin candidates were also subjected to mostly negative coverage, while Ukraine and…
Prime-time news show on Russian state TV: One lie per minute
However, Mr. Kiselyov’s statements were picked apart already on the following day in an article titled “Dmitry Kiselyov’s…
Crimean limbo: How low can Russian propaganda go?
Ahead of the 5th anniversary of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, Russian state-funded RIA Novosti published an article…
“Ukraine will turn into a banana republic”: Ukrainian elections on Russian TV
Ukrainian presidential and parliamentary elections in 2019 will take place in the context of conventional and hybrid aggression…