Kremlin disinformation this week: Old lies, Jewish bankers, and green dictators
By EU vs Disinfo
Se non è vero, è molto ben trovato – “It might be untrue, but it is very well conceived”. The phrase...
Distortion: Poland Appropriates Ukrainian Cities Lviv, Lutsk, Rivne
Russian and Ukrainian media recently featured stories about Polish trains on which the Ukrainian cities of Lviv, Lutsk and Rivne are painted on the...
Fake: Ukraine Turning into a Nuclear Burying Ground, Facing a Second Chornobyl
A second Chornobyl is brewing in Ukraine, the pro-Kremlin Ukraina.ru web newspaper announced last week. Ukraina.ru is part of the Russia Today state owned...
Greetings from the USSR
By EU vs Disinfo
We’re back in 1969. A Soviet sailor drops a message in a bottle from his ship into the Pacific Ocean. Fifty...
The specter of 1939: The unlearned lessons of WWII linger in, for some
By Edward Lucas, for CEPA
Every Pole knows why September 17th, 1939 matters. So do many Ukrainians, especially in the country’s west–which was then part...
One article, many ways to disinform
By EU vs Disinfo
The recent purchase of an anti-tank missile system by Estonia resulted in illogical, threatening and ridiculing narratives by pro-Kremlin media.
The Estonian Defence Forces...
Russian Foreign Ministry denies Red Army brought repression to Bulgaria in 1944
By Polygraph
Maria Zakharova
Spokesperson, Russian Foreign Ministry
“By declaring that the Red Army brought so-called repressions, Bulgaria is engaged in rewriting history. This is a dangerous...
I create “convincing” manipulated images and videos — but quality may not matter much
Bad videos can be persuasive, too.
By Christye Sisson, for NiemanLab
Lots of people — including Congress — are worried about fake videos and imagery distorting...
Like Brezhnev’s, language of ‘developed Putinism’ blocks reality from breaking through, Yakovenko says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
“The disintegration of the Soviet Union was prepared during the two decades of ‘developed socialism’” when “the language of...
Russian Nukes Target the US: StopFakeNews with Marko Suprun (#251)
Fake: Lithuania teaches war to Ukrainian children. Ukraine gave up the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal because of American threats.
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