Kremlin Watch Briefing: Facebook’s arms race or just more PR?
Topics of the Week
Facebook is responding to Russian interference in the United States, but continuously underestimates disinformation campaigns in other countries.
The New York Times: US Cyber Command...
The Putin regime uses blackmail against its people and the West
By Kseniya Kirillova, for Integrity Initiative
As its confrontation with the West grows, Russia is increasing its use of elements of diplomatic blackmail, both veiled...
Figure of the Week: 3
By EU vs Disinfo
Britain has charged two Russian military intelligence officers with poisoning former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, but only a fraction...
OSCE interview fuels Kremlin disinformation
By Polygraph
Andrey Rudenko
Russia-24 correspondent
“Alexander Hug is well informed. For four years he’s been working in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, and in Ukraine...
Smearing Sweden: International Influence Campaigns in the 2018 Swedish Election
By Chloe Colliver, Peter Pomerantsev, Anne Applebaum, Jonathan Birdwell, for ISD
October 2018
This report presents the findings of a project that investigated foreign attempts to...
Nitin Agarwal, Kiran Kumar Bandeli. Examining strategic integration of social media platforms in disinformation...
By NATO Stratcom Centre of Excellence
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Social media platforms are widely used for sharing information. Although social media use is generally benign,...
Update: US labels as ‘absurd’ Russian accusations of manipulation of the Macedonian Parliament
By Polygraph
Russian Foreign Ministry
Russian Foreign Ministry
"Eight votes that were necessary to secure a qualified majority were ensured by …means of blackmailing, threats and bribing...
Russian state TV claims Megyn Kelly’s show taken off air because of Russians’ love...
By Polygraph
Kirill Kleimyonov
TV anchor, Russia
“The program of Megyn Kelly, our favorite American TV anchor, is being taken off the air. She was fired on...
Dali, Warhol, Boshirov: Determining the tme of an alleged photograph from Skripal suspect Chepiga
By Bellingcat Investigation Team
On 11 October 2014, a Facebook profile to a person named “Ruslan Boshirov” — the cover identity of Skripal poisoner Anatoliy Chepiga —...
Commanding the trolls
By EU vs Disinfo
Thanks to a series of journalistic investigations, many of which have been carried out by Russian reporters, it is already well known...