RT and Sputnik had more Twitter outreach than official Brexit campaigns
Topics of the Week
According to a new report prepared by the 89up digital agency, the Kremlin’s mouthpieces, RT and Sputnik, produced anti-EU content on...
Zakharova Downplays Armed Clash with Americans in Syria, Kremlin-linked Audio Recordings Contradict Her Story
By Polygraph
Maria Zakharova
Press secretary, Russian Foreign Ministry
“Material about the deaths of dozens and hundreds of Russian citizens – it is classic disinformation. It was...
StopFake #171 with Marko Suprun
Fake: US Intelligence finds reasons for regime change in Ukraine; Europe Denies Donbas Pensions; Ukrainian soldiers reject proposed patriotic greeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OGa523ZZd8
Rate the Most Glaring Fakes About Occupied Crimea
As the anniversary of the Russian annexation of Crimea draws upon us, StopFake presents an interactive rating of Russian fakes about Crimea. Score each...
Fake: US Intelligence Finds Reasons for Regime Change in Ukraine
Last week the Russian newspaper Vzglyad featured an article claiming that the US Intelligence community’s Worldwide Threat Assessment concluded that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko...
Fake: Ukrainian Right Sector Radicals Attack Peaceful Russians in Athens
Russian media presented a recent football brawl in the Greek capital Athens as an attack on peaceful Russians tourists by radical Ukrainians from the...
Fake: Europe Denies Donbas Pensions
On February 13 Russian media blared with headlines such as European Court for Human Rights allows Ukraine not to pay out war zone pensions,...
Moldova Introduces Fines for ‘Russian Propaganda’
By Madalin Necsutu, for BalcanInsight
The authorities have begun to impose financial penalties on media outlets in an attempt to prevent alleged attempts to spread Russian...
Movement of Russia’s military equipment near Latvia’s border is information war – Chief of...
By The Baltic Times
Movement of Russia’s military equipment near Latvia’s border, deployment of Iskander missiles in Kalningrad is rather an information war, not a...
Figure of the Week: 18.7 billion
By EU vs Disinfo
Russia may be cutting spending on healthcare and education, but its state-run media have never been in better shape.
RT’s budget for...