Governments making “fake news” a crime risk stifling real journalism — accidentally or intentionally
By Alana Schetzer, for NiemanLab
Lumping together disinformation campaigns with news the government says isn’t in the “public interest” is a recipe for abuse.
The rapid...
Macedonian PM publicly apologizes after he was deceived by pro-Kremlin Russian pranksters
By Metamorphosis Foundation, for Global Voices
This story originally appeared on Meta.mk News Agency, a project of Metamorphosis Foundation. An edited version is published below as part...
Russian pundit claims liberal governments at war with religion
By Polygraph
Alexander Nekrassov
Political Analyst
“Liberalism worships two things: money and debauchery ... Eventually, this worship made all democracies morph into atheistic regimes, who’ve been witch-hunting...
Russian ex-cosmonaut claims to have seen from space with ‘naked eye’ Ukrainian shelling of...
By Polygraph
Elena Serova
Russian State Duma Deputy, ex-cosmonaut
"From the board of the International Space Station, I got to see with the naked eye, how the...
Rule, Britannia! A Round Table without King Arthur
By EU vs Disinfo
In 1909, a group of British colonialists took the initiative to create a group, called the Society of the Round Table....
How could deepfakes impact the 2020 U.S. elections?
By Nicholas Diakopoulos and Deborah Johnson, for NiemanLab
Seven scenarios — from faked scandalous audio to voter intimidation to imagined journalistic corruption — show the...
Fake: Ukraine Buys Broken Locomotives from US
A number of Russian and pro-Kremlin media reported last month that Ukraine had purchased low quality Evolution type locomotives from the United States. Tezar...
Fake: Pope Presents Putin with Guardian Angel of Peace Medal
The recent visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Vatican inspired pro-Kremlin media to come up with a rather fawning fake, that Pope...
Putin tells Elton John Russia ‘unbiased’ toward LGBT community
By Polygraph
Vladimir Putin
Russian President
"We really have a very smooth relationship with members of the LGBT community – really calm, perfectly unbiased.”
Source: Ria Novosti...
Top Takes: Suspected Russian Intelligence Operation. Operators worked across platforms to spread lies and...
By @DFRLab
A Russian-based information operation used fake accounts, forged documents, and dozens of online platforms to spread stories that attacked Western interests and unity....