Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Ping pong pact policy

By EU vs Disinfo The Kremlin on the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact One feature in the Kremlin disinformation efforts is the lack of consistency. Disinformation outlets...

Fake: Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry Acknowledges that Crimeans are Forever Lost to Ukraine

Russian publications Politnavigator and Imag.One disseminated stories last week claiming the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry admitted that the inhabitants of Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula that...

The StopFake Supervisory Board Position About the Escalating Information Attacks Directed Against the Project...

The StopFake Supervisory Board Position About the Escalating Information Attacks Directed Against the Project Team We are convinced that brutal, untrue articles that discredit the...

Fake: Russian Constitutional Changes Make Crimea Forever Russian

The week long vote on constitutional changes in Russia that took place from June 25 through July 1 created quite a stir in both...

Fake: Merkel to Help Kyiv Liquidate Ukrainian Cities

Russian propagandist publication Ukraina.ru claims that under the approval of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Ukrainian government intends to eliminate coal mines, the only...

Coronavirus responses highlight how humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their...

By Adrian Bardon, for NiemanLab Bemoaning uneven individual and state compliance with public health recommendations, top U.S. COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci recently blamed the country’s ineffective pandemic response...

Coronavirus: misinformation is leading to ‘fake news’ anxieties in Dutch refugee communities

By Ilse van Liempt, Mieke Kox, for The Conversation The coronavirus pandemic has led to a crisis among asylum seekers and refugees in the Netherlands....

A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the...

By Andrew M. Guess, Michael Lerner, Benjamin Lyons, Jacob M. Montgomery, Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler, and Neelanjan Sircar, for PNAS Read PDF here. PNAS first published June 22, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.192049811 Edited by David G. Rand,...

The little things — pop-ups, notifications, warnings — work to fight fake news, new...

By Laura Hazard Owen, for NiemanLab The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard...

Fake: Ukraine Threatens Russia with War

Russian media completely distorted an interview that the commander of Ukraine’s Naval Forces Rear Admiral Oleksiy Neyizhpapa gave to the Odesa site Dumska, claiming...