How One Verification Team Worked to Debunk Misleading Information About the Japanese Election
By Nevin Thompson, for Global Voices
On Sunday, October 22, Japan went to the polls and re-elected the government of Abe Shinzo. The snap election, called...
Kremlin Watch Briefing: Were Russian social media ads really pro-Trump?
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In their most recent article, Franklin D. Kramer of the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security and Lauren M. Speranza of...
Fake: Ukrainian Military Looks for Conscripts in Monastery
Last week RIA Novosti reported that Ukraine’s military conducted a night raid on a Ukrainian Catholic monastery looking for conscripts. Korrespondent, Kremlin Press, Russkaya...
Putin’s Russification Program Far More Radical and Dangerous than It Originally Appeared
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
The conclusion of the Tatarstan procuracy that Russian language study is compulsory but non-Russian language study must be voluntary...
The Kremlin’s 1917 Revolution Problem
By Amie Ferris-Rotman, CodaStory
The 100th anniversary of the October Revolution brings difficult memories for modern-day Russia
The diorama showing how Ulyanovsk looked when Vladimir Lenin...
Fake: Ukrainian Shelling Kills Donetsk Boy
Scores of Russian media reported that on November 5 a ten year old boy was killed and another two were wounded as a result...
Seven things you should know about pro-Kremlin disinformation
By EU vs Disinfo
1) Pro-Kremlin disinformation can look like just another news story
Claims made in pro-Kremlin fake news stories are sometimes simply taken out...
StopFake #156 with Romeo Kokriatsky
The latest edition of StopFake News with Romeo Kokriatsky includes fake claims about new EU visas, sex worker information that never was, NATO nuclear...
Debunked: Russian sanctions are not sinking the Latvian economy
Mārtiņš Kaprāns, for CEPA
Pro-Kremlin media outlets in Latvia continue to spread the narrative that Moscow’s ban on agricultural and maritime imports from the European...
Fake: Mykolayiv School Distributes Sex Worker Pamphlets
Russian and Ukrainian sites disseminated a story last week claiming that after a lesson on AIDS prevention, students in the eastern Ukrainian port city...