Putin’s Direct Line and Ukraine
When asked what advice would he give his grandchildren, Russian president Vladimir Putin responded with an answer that is uncharacteristic for a former KGB...
Atlantic Council launches comprehensive website to track Russian disinformation
By The Atlantic Council
June 6, 2018 the Atlantic Council launched DisinfoPortal.org, an interactive online guide to track the Kremlin’s disinformation campaigns abroad. The portal...
Issue brief: How disinformation impacts politics and publics
By National Endowment for Democracy
In this Brief:
How disinformation is used and consumed
Proactive and reactive disinformation strategies in different country contexts
The scale...
The Russian propaganda guide to stealing your roommate’s burrito
By Natalia Antonova, for Global Comment
Crap, you have stolen your roommate’s burrito. It happens to the best of us. Don’t have a roommate? I...
Russian Citizen Fact Check: ‘Everything…is a Lie’
By Polygraph
Svetlana Sokolova
Russian regional governor
"Strunino is, of course, a small town, 14,000 residents in 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the main city, Alexandrov. And...
Fake: Ukraine Boasts about Crimea Drought
Several pro-Kremlin Russian media disseminated stories this week claiming that Ukrainian MP Mustafa Dzhemilev, the leader of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis representative council boasted...
Russian troops keep dying in Syria six months after Putin announced their withdrawal
By Polygraph
Russian Defense Ministry, via Sputnik
"Four Russian servicemen have been killed in Syria as a result of shelling by militants, the Russian Defense Ministry...
Can crowdsourcing scale fact-checking up, up, up? Probably not, and here’s why
By Mevan Babakar, for NiemanLab
There’s no end to the need for fact-checking, but fact-checking teams are usually small and struggle to keep up with the...
What do Russian nationalists, Alex Jones and Roseanne have in common?
By Polygraph
Ya Russkiy Website
“This is George Soros. Remember this next time the Soros-funded liberals call you a racist, fascist or Nazi.”
Source: Ya-Russ.ru, April 22,...
How many non-existent apples go into two apples?
By EU vs Disinfo
Distracting the audience is one of the goals of the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign. One of the techniques how to do this...