Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Part 1: Threat Report Facebook. Looking Back

By EU vs Disinfo Facebook’s report, published last Wednesday, shows how foreign and domestic covert influence operators from 2017 sophisticated their tactics reacting to efforts by...

Fake: Ukrainian General Predicts Loss of Azov and Black Seas

Russian media have been busy disseminating stories claiming that Ukraine’s Military High Command is predicting Ukraine’s  imminent loss of the Black and Azov seas....

Lukashenko ‘The Avia-Pirate’ – Steadying The Sinking Ship?

By Vazha Tavberidze, for Georgian Institute for Security Policy On May 18, Belarus’ most popular internet portal TUT.by was shut down. In addition to the...

Nearly 40% of Americans already believe Covid-19 leaked from a lab. What happens if...

By Laura Hazard Owen, for NiemanLab Plus: “Media news consumption is by far the strongest independent predictor of QAnon beliefs.” The growing stream of reporting on...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: The West should respond to Lukashenko, the Hijacker

TOPICS OF THIS WEEK The West should respond adequatly to Lukashenko's hijacking operation. The US waives sanctions on key players in Nord Stream 2 construction, while...

Lies, Damned Lies And Lukashenka’s Lies

By EU vs Disinfo The illegitimate president of Belarus, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, is clinging to power, based on a lie that he won the presidential election in August...

Deny, Deceive, Defame And Deflect

By EU vs Disinfo The pro-Kremlin ecosystem has established its talking points on Lukashenka’s act of, in the words of the CEO of Ryanair, “state-sponsored...

On the other side of the screen: An analysis of media consumption and disinformation...

By Detector Media Pro-Russian disinformation, local elections and the COVID-19 epidemic were the strongest factors influenced Ukrainians’ media consumption and their communications on social media...

France suspects Russia could be behind campaign to tar Pfizer vaccines

By UNIAN French counterintelligence is investigating whether Russia masterminded an attempt to pay high-profile health and science bloggers to sow public doubts about the safety...

China’s Communists Flounder in European Information War

By Ben Dubow, for CEPA Smaller media rivals have gamed recommendations engines to clobber far better-funded CCP outlets across Europe. Are half-fox half-men real? How about Mermaids? What about...