Monday, September 22, 2025

Fake: Ukraine a US Biological Testing Site

Scores of Russian media disseminated stories this week claiming that the US were conducting secret biological experiments in Ukraine resulting in some of the...

The Daily Vertical: The Ghosts Of August 1939 (Transcript)

By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL It happens every August, almost without fail. As the summer winds down, you can count on the annual controversy about the...

Russian Disinformation: Everywhere? Nowhere? Neither?

In America, debate over the reach of Moscow propaganda heats up and scrambles political alliances By Steven Yoder, for Codastory Russia is a character in most...

Facing facts: Why the Great Famine in Ukraine still matters today

By Edward Lucas, for CEPA The Holodomor happened almost a century ago. It's legacy still shapes contemporary conflict. Was the Holodomor a genocide? No, says modern...

StopFake #146 with Matt Kriteman

The latest edition of StopFake News with Matt Kriteman. Among the disinformation debunked this week: Ukrainian independence is a sham! Nothing has been achieved...

Is Russia losing the information war?

By Donald N. Jensen, for CEPA Nikolay Patrushev, head of the Russian Security Council, warns that the use of foreign data technology by state structures...

Fake: Medical Genocide in Ukraine

Russian Defense Ministry’s television channel Zvezda published a story on its web site claiming that Ukraine is killing its citizens by depriving them of...

The Daily Vertical: Best frenemies forever (Transcript)

By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL They're arguing about milk. They're quarreling about customs. And they're squabbling about ports. For two countries that are supposed to be...

Surge in fake news now being spread by mirror sites imitating the Guardian, al-Jazeera...

By Codastory A collection of fake news websites imitating al-Jazeera, the Atlantic, the Belgian newspaper Le Soir and others have recently cropped up online, according...

Kremlin scare tactics in Latvia

By Mārtiņš Kaprāns, for CEPA At the beginning of August, Russian state-owned TV channels Perviy Kanal (PK) and NTV reported extensively on the idea of...