Fake News and Fake Solutions: How Do We Build a Civics of Trust?
By Ivan Sigal. for Global Voices
We need to start serious conversations about systemic social challenges, rather than tinkering with their effects
In his recent manifesto, Mark Zuckerberg...
The Trump-Putin summit was a win for Russia. Why aren’t they celebrating?
By Sarah Manney, July 25, 2018
After last weekend’s summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, widely held in the West as a...
Russia tries everything to blacken reputation of White Helmets
By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake
Russia escalated its long-running hate campaign against the White Helmets Syrian rescue group in response to the evacuation over...
Fake: Ukraine Troops Kill Separatist Defector
The Ukrainian military killed a separatist militant who wanted to take advantage of the Ukrainian Security Service’s (SBU) “They’re Waiting for you at Home”...
Fake: Poroshenko Allows Lumber Smuggling to EU
“Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko authorizes lumber smuggling to EU countries” declared a July 23 headline in the pro-Kremlin internet site Ukraina.ru. Having vetoed a...
The justifiable outrage at Western reporting on Ukraine
By Ariana Gic, for StopFake
Only July 23, the BBC’s Panorama aired “The Faked Murder that Fooled the World”, about the staged murder of a...
In Sweden, resilience is key to combatting disinformation
By EU vs Disinfo
Since Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014 – an operation where disinformation, deception and confusion played a major role – Swedish...
Military Intelligence, fake online personas, fake local news: How Russia targeted US elections
By EU vs Disinfo
On Friday 13 July, the US Justice Department took a further step in their investigation of Russian meddling into the 2016...
Russian influence in Montenegro: disinformation, threats and attempted regime change
By EU vs Disinfo
A recent debate about Montenegro’s NATO membership has put the spotlight on this Western Balkan country. But it is not the...
Estonia spy chief: Network of operatives pushing Russian agenda in West
By Jeff Seldin, for VoA
For the past several months, intelligence and security officials in the U.S. government and private sector have cautiously marveled at the...