How Russia Weaponizes Fake News
By Terrell Jermaine Starr, Foxtrot Alpha
Russia gets a lot of attention over its ongoing aggression in Ukraine and other former Soviet states. What does...
Facebook can now flag fake news stories as ‘disputed’
Napier Lopez, TNW, via Recode
Following up on its promise from December, Facebook has begun to flag fake news stories on news feeds in the US.
Questionable...
How to Spot Visualization Lies
By Nathan Yau, FlowingData
By Nathan Yau, FlowingData
It used to be that we’d see a poorly made graph or a data design goof, laugh it...
Le Pen’s (Small) Online Army
How a French far-right group tried to break into Twitter’s trends
By Ben Nimmo, @DFRLab
France holds presidential elections on April 23. Ahead of the polls,...
Tracking a Mysterious Missile Launcher Inside an Information War
By Henk van Ess, Global Investigation Journalism Network
Egyptian traffic cops found a mobile launcher lying in a piece of pile near the airport of...
The Daily Vertical: History, Mythology, And Heretics (Transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, RFE/RL
The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.
Two Russian courts have ruled that something everybody...
The Kremlin’s Balkan Gambit: Part I
By Christo Grozev, Bellingcat
This is part I of our joint investigation with the Russian investigative magazine The Insider into a series of active measures,...
StopFakeNews #122 with Marko Suprun
The latest edition of StopFake News with Marko Suprun. This week’s fakes include Russian media dismissing the positives of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, claims...
Fake: Europe Accuses Ukraine of Increasing Radioactivity
At the end of February several Russian publications claimed that European countries were accusing Ukraine of releasing a radioactive isotope into the continent’s atmosphere.
An...
Fake: German Media against Eurovision in Kyiv
German media are against holding the 2017 Eurovision Song contest in Kyiv, declared the Russian news site Politexpert at the end of February. Written...