Robotrolling 2019/3
By Dr. Rolf Fredheim, Belen Carrasco Rodriguez and John Gallagher, for NATO Stratcom Centre of Excellence
Executive Summary
In the period May—July 2019 bots accounted for...
Russia claims Baltic States never turned democratic
By Polygraph
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Twitter account
“In the early 90s the Baltic nations, after over 50 years of being a part of the #SovietUnion,...
Lega Nord’s Bedfellows: Russians offering illicit funding to Italian far-right party identified
By Christo Grozev, for Bellingcat
In a previous joint investigation with BuzzFeed News and the Insider, Bellingcat disclosed the inordinately frequent travel of two Italian...
Figure of the week: 55%
By EU vs Disinfo
Between May and July 2019, bots accounted for a staggering 55% of all Russian-language Twitter messages about the NATO presence in...
Fake news can create false memories
Fake news can influence our memories – prove the results of the research published by the Association for Psychological Science (APS, earlier known as...
How the (ro)bots follow celebrities and politicians
The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP) in London has recently published the results of the investigation about the authenticity of the accounts following...
Don’t mention Crimea!
By EU vs Disinfo
The facts about Crimea’s annexation are now a taboo in Russia and subject to censorship.
When the Russian version of Israeli author...
The imperialist West strikes again (also, sex!)
By EU vs Disinfo
Of the Kremlin’s favoured disinformation narratives, perhaps the most enduring is whataboutism about the supposedly persistent evils of Western imperialism and...
Russian Disinformation Film Made in the USA: StopFake with Marko Suprun (No. 250)
Revealing Oliver Stone to be shill for Russian disinformation and his love for all things Putin.
https://youtu.be/wJTj-STgdJo
The Bellingcat: Suspected Assassin In The Berlin Killing Used Fake Identity Documents
By Bellingcat Investigation Team
What we know so far
Last Friday, 23 August 2019, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Georgian citizen living in Germany, was assassinated in downtown...