Propaganda and disempowerment
By EU vs Disinfo
Mass media are grouped along two major concepts: Media as a Forum or media as a Tribune. This is, of course, a theoretical model to describe...
Russian state media decries Ukraine for renaming its own cities
By Polygraph
RIA Novosti
Russian state-owned media outlet
“‘Not Odessa, but Kotsyubeyev!’ Why does Kyiv erase the real names of cities”
Source: RIA Novosti website
FALSE
Ukraine is a sovereign...
“Party of war” or “pro-peace?”
By Poman Shutov, for Ukrainian Election Task Force
To discredit some of the candidates running in the upcoming Ukrainian presidential election, Kremlin propaganda outlets accuse...
Are Russian trolls saving measles from extinction?
By Ron Synovitz, for RFE/RL
Scientific researchers say Russian social-media trolls who spread discord before the 2016 U.S. presidential election may also have played an...
Kseniya Kirillova: The power of disappointment
By Kseniya Kirillova, for Integrity Initiative
In the first year of the Russian-Ukrainian war, while trying to understand the origins of the patriotic upsurge that...
Witch-Hunt! Which Hunt?
By EU vs Disinfo
This has been a rough week for Russia. The country is subject to a witch-hunt in Germany, Latvia is provoking the EU to...
Outside the Kremlin comfort zone
By EU vs Disinfo
Last time it was RT. Now it’s NTV’s turn to have been found in “serious failure of compliance with impartiality rules” by...
An unfounded foundation
By EU vs Disinfo
The Strategic Culture Foundation has all the features of a modern, state-of-the-art think tank. An all-English site; tightly laid-out with a...
What Jesus Christ would have done to Poroshenko: Russian propaganda reacts to tomos
The Kremlin-led TV assures its viewers that Ukraine’s President will pay patriarch Bartholomew with Yuri Dolgorukiy’s remains.
By Olena Sheremeta, for Detector media
Translated to English...
“It doesn’t seem like we’re striving to make third-party fact checking more practical for...
By Christine Schmidt, for NiemanLab
Happy anniversary, Facebook: Snopes quit your fact-checking partnership.
Poynter’s Daniel Funke reported Friday that Snopes has pulled out of the third-party debunking squad Facebook enlisted in...