A Fake Fact Checker – Again
By EU vs Disinfo
Copycat site to the left, original fact-checking initiative to the right.
Last week, five Swedish publishers started a common fact-checking initiative, with the...
Fake: Naftogaz Loses to Gazprom in EU Court
Scores of Russian media featured stories this week claiming that the Ukrainian company Naftogaz lost a suit against the Russian company Gazprom. Ukraina.ru, RIA...
Anatomy of an online misinformation network
By Chengcheng Shao, Pik-Mai Hui, Lei Wang, Xinwen Jiang, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, for PLOS One
Abstract
Massive amounts of fake news and conspiratorial content have spread over social media...
America the Clueless or America the Context-less?: a practical, contextual approach to reporting on...
By Emily Thorson, for Trust, Media & Democracy
“America the clueless,” quipped the headline of an opinion piece by The New York Times’ Frank Bruni in 2013. In the...
Is the Russian embassy in the UK writing letters to itself?
By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake
The Russian embassy in the UK has been publishing a daily selection of “letters of support from ordinary UK...
Disinfo Analysis: 16 million British apologies – trend of the week in Russia’s domestic...
By Polygraph
The website of Russia’s RIA Novosti state news agency has featured a report headlined “The British have apologized to Russia for their insane leaders”...
Edward Lucas: Shell game
By Edward Lucas, for CEPA
When we are attacked, we are quick to call on other countries for help. Fixing our own problems is a...
States within states: how corruption in the Baltic transport sector perpetuates Russia’s economic influence
By Laurynas Keturakis, for Integrity Initiative
Since Russia’s incursion into Ukraine in 2014, the Baltic States have kept an especially watchful eye on the Kremlin....
The Kremlin Guard: Russia’s Pro-Government Youth Organizations
By Ksenia Kirillova, for Defence Report
The leader of the Young Guard of United Russia Denis Davydov announced that this organization plans to create groups to combat opposition movements...
Four factors affecting press freedom in Russia
By EU vs Disinfo
The World Press Freedom Day has been marked every year on 3 May after it was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly...