Saturday, September 27, 2025

Antiviral social media: How can newsroom designers make debunks better?

New verification projects should consider core lessons from older and better-established fact-checking styles while adapting for social media ecosystems, Chris Blow writes for First...

Pro-Kremlin “Re-Information” Efforts: Structural Relations Between The Russian Media And The European Far Right

Author: Anton Shekhovtsov Abstract To promote their message about the decadent West, the Russian media have engaged with activists and politicians from the fringes of socio-political...

Fake: International MH17 Investigation Team Ignores Russian Radar Data

Russian media are casting doubt on the MH17 Joint Investigation Team findings, claiming that the group has ignored the results of Russian radar data...

Fake: Ukrainian Journalist Arrested in Russia Is a Spy

Ukrainian Journalist Roman Sushchenko was arrested on September 30 while visiting his relatives in Moscow.  Russia’s Federal Security Service the FSB promptly declared that...

Fake: Ukraine’s Defense Ministry Invites Separatist Militants to Join Its Ranks

The Russian site Ukraina.ru published a story this week claiming that Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko invited separatist militants from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and...

The Daily Vertical: Others Cease, Russia Fires (Transcript)

By Brian Whitmore The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL. Should we really be that surprised that Russia has...

Kremlin Watch Monitor. October 4

Weekly update on Kremlin disinformation efforts The case of MH17 finally closed? According to 100 international prosecutors, the MH17 flight with 283 passengers on board has...

Fake: Crimean Tatar Mejlis a US Creation

On September 29 Russia’s Supreme Court ruled to uphold the ban on the Mejlis, the Crimean Tatars’ self-governing body. The US responded immediately and...

Russia: Cheerful Propaganda and Hate on Command

The Donetsk leak. Emails between separatists in eastern Ukraine and advisers from Russia offer insights into the Kremlin's media manipulation. The evidence of the extent...

StopFakeNews #102 with Nina Jankowicz

The latest edition of StopFake News with Nina Jankowicz. Among the disinformation debunked this week Catalonia to Recognize Crimea as Part of Russia,Ukraine’s Poltava...