Unlike in 2016, there was no spike in misinformation this election cycle
By Paul Resnick, for The Conversation
The “Iffy Quotient” has been downright steady leading up to tomorrow’s midterm elections, and Facebook deserves some credit for...
StopFake #208 with Marko Suprun
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister wants to root out Russian passport holders. EU warns Ukraine against militarization of Azov sea. Finnish court smacks three pro-Kremlin trolls...
Fake: Hungarian Teenagers Kill Ukrainian Boy in Transcarpathia
Social media, chat rooms and regional Ukrainian media all circulated stories claiming that a Ukrainian boy was cruelly murdered by Hungarian youths in a...
Fake: Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Wants to Root out Russian Passport Holders
All Ukrainian citizens who also have Russian passports will be rooted out – stories with such headlines were featured in the scores of pro-Kremlin...
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,...