Kremlin Watch Briefing: Russia not a priority disinformation threat for the European Commission
Topics of the Week
Russia is still not a priority threat for the European Commission when it comes to disinformation campaigns.
In order to maintain a good...
ICYMI and In The Now: The Support Vessels of the RT Flagship
By EU vs Disinfo
RT is the flagship of the Kremlin’s international communications flotilla. Like an aircraft carrier, it is deployed far from Russian speaking...
StopFake #182 with Marko Suprun
Ukraine in top five world leaders in air pollution mortality, Naftogaz loses to Gazprom in EU court and Upsurge in anti-Semitism in Ukraine.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ok_HIVPhm3U&feature=youtu.be
Fake: Kyiv Breaks Talks on Prisoner Exchange with Occupied Territories
Kyiv has been doing everything possible to break down negotiations on prisoner exchange with the so-called Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics and consistently ignoring...
Cyberattacks in Lithuania: The new normal
By Dalia Bankauskaitė and Simas Čelutka, for Integrity Initiative
On 18 January Lithuania encountered a cyberattack aimed at TV3.lt website, one of the most popular...
Facebook vs. Russian bots: the Kremlin is winning
By InformNapalm
For over 2 months in a row InformNapalm volunteers have been struggling with the wave of Facebook bans. Currently 4 of our active...
Pro-Kremlin Account Presents Ad Campaign as a Real Newspaper Story
By Polygraph
RIA Novosti
Russian state news agency
“The House of Representatives has adopted a law banning the U.S. from aiding Syria”
Source: RIA Novosti
FALSE
H.R. 4681 does not...
A Fake Fact Checker – Again
By EU vs Disinfo
Copycat site to the left, original fact-checking initiative to the right.
Last week, five Swedish publishers started a common fact-checking initiative, with the...
Fake: Naftogaz Loses to Gazprom in EU Court
Scores of Russian media featured stories this week claiming that the Ukrainian company Naftogaz lost a suit against the Russian company Gazprom. Ukraina.ru, RIA...
Anatomy of an online misinformation network
By Chengcheng Shao, Pik-Mai Hui, Lei Wang, Xinwen Jiang, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, for PLOS One
Abstract
Massive amounts of fake news and conspiratorial content have spread over social media...