Native verification tools for the blue checkmark crowd
By Mike Caulfield, for NiemanLab
Among the many differences between older social software and post-Facebook social software is the peculiar flatness of the...
Russian lawmaker: ‘Trump did not understand the significance of Soleimani’
By Fatima Tlis, for Polygraph
Elena PaninaRussian lawmaker"In this situation, we cannot exclude that the American military and intelligence agencies took advantage of the...
Karma for MH17. Shot Down to Start a War in the Middle East. Russian...
Russian media began peddling diverse versions of what brought down the Ukrainian Boeing 737 passenger jet within hours of its tragic crash near Tehran....
Sputnik mistakes Russian-made missile for American, mocks its effectiveness
By Polygraph
SputnikRussian state-owned media outlet“A video of a US TOW anti-tank missile being fired at a Syrian armed forces T-62 tank has emerged...
Disinformation in 2019: Ten Embarrassing Moments
By EU vs Disinfo
Disinformation is a serious global threat to democracy.
However, disinformation is not always the result of a powerful
actor’s well-coordinated plan. In some cases,...
Lies get further normalized
By Peter Bale, for NiemanLab
“It’s no accident that academic and journalist Peter Pomerantsev’s first book, about the wild days of journalism...
Fake: US and Ukraine Preparing New Chornobyl for Russia
Russia is facing a new Chornobyl disaster warned Tsargrad, a television station affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church and Russia’s security forces. The US...
A smarter conversation about how (and why) fact-checking matters
By Lucas Graves, for NiemanLab
“The facts unearthed by reporters and other watchdogs are a resource for public action, but they tend...
Syria accuses Americans of supporting IS after U.S. helped free most of country from...
By Polygraph
Walid MuallemSyrian Foreign Minister“The Americans are using ISIS as a scarecrow. At the same time they are feeding ISIS, encourage them, protect...
‘Russian world’ should be understood as ‘infectious psychiatric disorder,’ Altufyev says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
The Russian world has been defined and approached from many different directions, with some arguing that it includes...