Russian network TV show reportedly uses Twitter bots to fake fawning viewer feedback
By Meduza
The producers of a new daily political talk show on the national TV network Pervyi Kanal have created an army of Twitter bots...
War in Ukraine was years in the making
Ukraine is the only country in the world that has ongoing experience with a hybrid war—a simultaneous and adaptive military strategy that blends conventional...
Putin Preparing to Launch Third Post-Soviet Chechen War, Piontkovsky Says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
Having suffered a crushing defeat in Ukraine, alienated all of Russia’s neighbors and isolated it from the West, Vladimir...
French court orders journalist to retract the truth about grossly misleading Moreira film on...
By Halya Coynash, Human Rights in Ukraine
Paul Moreira, the author of a French film that falsely calls a tragic fire in Odesa a ‘massacre’...
StopFakeNews #138 with Brian Bonner
The latest edition of StopFake News with Kyiv Post editor-in-chief Brian Bonner. This week we dissect claims that visa-free travel to EU countries is...
Fake: Nord Stream 2 Will Make Ukraine’s Gas Transit System Obsolete
Big, empty and unnecessary – that’s the future that Russian site Ukraina.ru predicts for Ukraine’s gas transit system once the Nord stream-2 pipeline is...
The worse things become, the more Russians look to the state and to Putin
In most countries when the economic situation deteriorates or the government behaves in ways that fail to help the population out, an increasing number...
Information warfare in the Internet. Exposing and countering pro-Kremlin disinformation in the CEE Countries
Teaching children to distinguish fake news from the real ones as early as at primary school; naming & shaming the authors of disinformation stories;...
Advanced Guide on Verifying Video Content
By Aric Toler, Bellingcat
One of the most common issues for researchers and journalists is verifying user-generated video content, most often found on social networks...
Fake: Visa-Free Travel Useless. Ukrainians Denied Entry to Bulgaria
Ukrainian visa-free travel to the European Union continues to produce an inordinately large number of fakes in the Russian media. We’ve already seen claims...