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...
Russia Hackers Had Targets Worldwide, Beyond US Election
By VOA
Associated Press
The hackers who upended the U.S. presidential election had ambitions well beyond Hillary Clinton’s campaign, targeting the emails of Ukrainian officers, Russian...
Fake: Depopulation – Ukraine’s №1 Threat
Russian propagandist media such as Times.com.ua, Glavnovosti and Informburo have lately been publishing more and more stories about Ukraine’s alleged shrinking population. The latest...
Italian Students Learn ‘Ten Commandments’ for Spotting Fake News
By Codastory
Italian high school students are being taught how to spot fake news stories and conspiracy theories, ahead of parliamentary elections due next year.
Among...
Fake News Tries to Link Austria’s Chancellor-to-Be and Philanthropist George Soros
By Filip Stojanovski, for Global Voices
Editor's note: Global Voices is a grantee of Open Society Foundations.
Days after Sebastian Kurz's party won the most votes in...
Law Tightening Internet Restrictions Comes Into Force In Russia
By RFE/RL
A controversial law tightening restrictions on the Internet comes in force in Russia on November 1, months ahead of a March 2018 election...
Kremlin Watch Briefing. October 31
For those seeking to understand the state of play in the Czech Republic, we have prepared a brief report published by the Warsaw Institute....