Kremlin plans to replace fraud Ilyumzhinov with slick Dvorkovich in chess world
By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake
For 23 years the world chess federation, FIDE, has been held captive by one of the most cynical and...
We still need East Stratcom against Kremlin trolls
By Laima Andrikiene, for EUobserver
The EU and its member states are facing an organised and aggressive Russian state fake news, manipulation and disinformation campaign.
Its objective...
StopFake #188 with Marko Suprun
Fake: Ukrainian soldier deserts and joins separatists; Hungary to shoot down Ukraine airplane; Ukrainian parliamentary speaker is a Neo-Nazi and an anti-Semite; Serbia says...
Thief cries, catch the thief!
By EU vs Disinfo
When pro-Kremlin commentators attempt to blur the facts about MH17, they insist that any investigation that does not include Russia among...
Russian Foreign ministry spreads fake Margaret Thatcher quote
By Polygraph
Russian Foreign Ministry's Official Twitter Account
Russian Foreign Ministry
“In November 1991, in her speech in Houston, ex-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said that ‘according...
Fake: Ukrainian Soldier Willingly Joins Separatists
Ukrainian soldier surrenders to separatist militia because of the drunkenness of his colleagues, blared the headline in the pro-Kremlin internet newspaper Ukraina.ru. Lenta.ru, Argumenty...
They speak Russian in Crimea, but that doesn’t make it part of Russia
By Peter Dickinson, for Atlantic Counsil
US President Donald Trump made headlines ahead of the recent G7 summit in Canada by calling on his colleagues...
In the U.S., the left trusts the mainstream media more than the right, and...
By Antonis Kalogeropoulos and Richard Fletcher, for NiemanLab
s Facebook moves to privilege “broadly trusted” sources in its News Feed, our research — more of which...
Internet users fed up with fake news
Source: Reuters Institute / BBC
Fewer and fewer people use Facebook as the source of information and the platform to discuss them. The reason is...
Anatomy of a Russian ‘troll factory’ news site
By Aric Toler, for Bellingcat
When browsing through stories on the newly-established media outlet USAReally.com, you may think that you are reading a procedural-generated site...