Thursday, February 5, 2026

Fake: Oleg Sentsov Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Russian social media was abuzz with stories on August 27 featuring a photograph on the Hollywood Walk of Fame bearing the name of Ukrainian...

Lavrov: West is blocking chemical weapons inspections in Syria — Not True

By Polygraph Sergei Lavrov Russian Foreign Minister Commenting on the chemical attack that allegedly took place on Syrian territory, Lavrov noted that ‘such situations have happened in...

Countering information influence activities: A handbook for communicators

By RIB-Meny The handbook aims to assist and support communication specialists in public administration to identify, analyse and counter information influence activities in order to...

Is there really data that heavy Facebook use caused…erm, is correlated with…erm, is linked...

Plus: Does all our yammering about fake news make people think real news is fake? By Shan Wang, for NiemanLab The growing stream of reporting on...

#PackOfLies: How Moldova protects itself against disinformation

By Vilnius Institute for Policy Analysis Though Moldova is daily bombarded by huge amounts of disinformation, there are active groups in the country working on...

Manipulation: Czech Republic Does Not Want to Accept Migrants Because of Ukraine

Scores of Russian media featured manipulative stories this week claiming Ukrainians are the reason for the Czech Republic refusing to accept migrants from Syria...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: US and European elections – how to protect them?

Topics of the Week Ilya Zaslavskiy: Israel should acknowledge the threat of the Kremlin's hostile influence and act accordingly. Are the US midterms already in jeopardy? RT is fond of...

Russian analyst belittles American LNG potential in a ‘gas war’ over Europe

By Polygraph Sergei Savchuk RIA Novosti Contributor "As of today, the number of all liquefied natural gas plants in the United States is precisely…one. It's located in...

Figure of the week: 93

By EU vs Disinfo As many as 93 percent of messages about vaccines posted on Twitter between 2014 and 2017 came from malicious accounts, including...

Russian Embassy tweets misleading photo about Syria

By Polygraph Twitter Account of Russia’s Embassy in South Africa Official Russian Foreign Ministry social media account “Russian Defence Ministry: English-speaking ‘foreign specialists’ have arrived in #Syria...