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“Great marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell”, according to marketing gurus, and pro-Kremlin media have taken the lesson to heart.

Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) accuses Russia, China and Iran of spreading disinformation about COVID-19.

“Vaccine will not stop COVID-19 if governments do not deal with disinformation about this illness”, said Francesco Rocca, the head of the Red Cross, the biggest humanitarian aid organization in the world.

While the presidential US election continues to dominate global headlines, another noteworthy election took place in Europe.

Would you like to have “a machine to detect fake news”? It can be true soon thanks to Polish scientists. Eng.D Piotr Przybyła from Polish Academy of Sciences works on algorithm which can detect if the text is manipulated or false based just on its stylistics.

Following the US Election Day, pro-Kremlin media claimed that the US democracy is an illusion, election was fraudulent, and thus the US has no right to lecture others about human rights or democracy.

One of the most disgusting operations of Russian Federation’s special forces in the last few years is the creation in the Moscow Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology the coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V.

Disinformation considering the coronavirus pandemic, like the virus itself, has taken over the whole world. But unlike the pandemic, which doesn’t spare any social group, manipulation takes different forms.

Sociological research by British think-tank Sociolytics suggests: not much. At the outset of the mass protests against Alyaksandr Lukashenka in Belarus, a number of journalists working at Belarusian state channels went on a strike.

“Ah! Where deaths happened was in mining activity, but it was before the hurricane hit. … Some villages of the Miskito Communities were totally devastated, but there was not a single deceased there, why?