Civil war in Latvia? Not so fast
Pro-Kremlin media plays with the idea of civil war in Latvia
By Mārtiņš Kaprāns, for CEPA
On 5 July, the pro-Kremlin news portal Vesti.lv published an...
Kremlin squeezes Russian internet providers
By Donald N. Jensen, for CEPA
In late July, Russian President Vladimir Putin tightened restrictions on internet usage in Russia by signing amendments to an...
Fake: Ukraine to Dump Soviet Era General’s Remains
All it takes to create a Russian fake about something Ukrainian is one juicy quote taken out of context. The website Moskovskiy Komsomolets did...
StopFake #143 with Euan MacDonald
The latest edition of StopFake News with Euan MacDonald. Among the disinformation debunked this week are fake claims about the economic benefits for Crimea...
Philippines: On Facebook’s free version, fake news is even harder to spot
By Mong Palatino, for Global Voices
Facebook is an important platform for sharing news and information online. But even the most savvy of internet users...
Nothing Lasts Forever Whatever the Kremlin Says, Novoprudsky Argues
The Russian authorities have long promoted the idea that whatever is is forever as “an effective means of convincing people that the powers that...
Tracking Russian propaganda in real time The trouble with a new automated effort to...
By Kevin Rothrock, for Meduza
On August 2, The German Marshall Fund of the United States unveiled a new online tool — a “dashboard” —...
Making online platforms responsible for news content
By Klára Votavova, Jakub Janda, for European Values
This paper aims to contribute to the highly salient debate on fake news and hate speech by...
Russian public life today is not just a battle of individuals but a struggle...
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
Despite the conviction of many that conflicts among opposition figures are simply battles among individuals, Vladimir Pastukhov says, “an...
Donbas militants ‘sentence’ blogger to 14 years for “spreading negative information”
By Halya Coynash. for Human Rights in Ukraine
A so-called military court in the self-proclaimed ‘Luhansk people’s republic’ has sentenced two Ukrainians to huge...