How to hold Facebook and Google responsible for fake news
By Klára Votavová and Jakub Janda, for Atlantic Council
Online platforms have become the world’s most influential editors-in-chief. According to a 2016 Reuters Digital News...
Russia: Does website closure indicate the Kremlin is feeling economic pinch?
By Casey Michel, for Eurasianet
It seems that Russia’s economic troubles may be starting to hinder the Kremlin’s use of electronic media to push its...
How do you collude in Russian? You don’t!
By Michele A. Berdy, for The Moscow Times
Вступить в тайный сговор: to collude
With all this talk in the U.S. about collusion and Russians, I...
StopFakeNews #142 with Marko Suprun
The latest edition of StopFake News with Marko Suprun. This week we we debunk yet another fake claim about Ukrainian military shelling OSCE monitoring...
Fake: Ukraine Drying Up Having Cut Off Water to Crimea
The Russian site Ukraina.ru published a story last week claiming that Ukraine was in danger of a severe drought due to the closure of...
Fake: EU To Impose Retaliatory Sanctions Against US
Russia’s Defense Ministry television channel Zvezda announced this week that the European Union would impose sanctions on the US in response to Washington’s new...
Majority of young Russians watch Kremlin-funded news
By The Moscow Times
State-run television is the principal source of news for a majority of young Russians, the independent Russian television channel Dozhd reported Friday.
Fifty-four percent of Russians aged...
Does ‘countering Russian mischief’ mean being anti-Russian?
By Urve Eslas, for CEPA
On 11 July, a group of senior U.S. and European officials gathered in Washington to launch the transatlantic Alliance for...
The Daily Vertical: The limits of dark power (Transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, RFE/RL
Agitprop has its limits.
Active measures have a downside.
Influence operations often result in blowback.
And if these lessons aren't yet obvious to Vladimir...
Denmark to educate soldiers in combatting disinformation
By East Stratcom
Training in how to combat pro-Kremlin disinformation is a “top priority” for the 200 Danish soldiers who will be deployed to Estonia...