Friday, September 5, 2025

Celebrity deepfakes are all over TikTok. Here’s why they’re becoming common – and how...

By Rob Cover, for The Conversation One of the world’s most popular social media platforms, TikTok, is now host to a steady stream of deepfake...

Kremlin’s Tightrope Walk Between Fear And Bravado

By EU vs Disinfo On July 14, just hours after we published our latest disinformation review about Russia’s imperial ambitions for Ukraine, the world learned of another...

Russian Cyberattacks Need an International Criminal Court Response

By Lindsay Freeman, for CEPA International law needs to keep pace with the changing nature of warfare. The ICC is best placed to take action. In...

Russian propaganda is making inroads with right-wing Canadians

By Philip Mai, Alyssa N. Saiphoo, Anatoliy Gruzd, Felipe Bonow Soares, for The Conversation On July 8, Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly announced new sanctions against...

Fake: Ukrainian Refugees Brawl on Italian Highway

Ukrainians were not involved in any way in the video that was published by Russian propagandists showing protesters blocking traffic. It was not Ukrainians...

Russia as Evil: False Historical Parallels. Some peculiarities of Russian Political Culture

Today, many people are trying to compare Putin’s Russia regime with Hitler’s Germany. Indeed, the two states have much in common, particularly the human-hating...

Fake: US Kyiv Embassy and Odesa Consulate Evacuated

Russian claims that the US Embassy in Ukraine has evacuated its staff and ceased working is not true. Both the embassy and its consulates...

Projecting Their Own Twisted Actions Onto Others

By EU vs Disinfo Since we published our last Disinfo Review, pro-Kremlin outlets have turned up the heat on Poland again. Namely, several outlets claimed that Poland is about...

How to Ensure Putinism Survives Putin

By Kseniya Kirillova, for CEPA There are moves to have Putinism installed as a state ideology to last beyond the president’s time in office. Alexander Dugin,...

Manipulation: Ukraine Gives Poland Right to Distribute Ukrainian Passports

Starting in August, Ukrainians who were granted asylum in Poland will be able to process identification cards through the foreign division of Ukraine’s State...