Factual Entertainment: How to make media literacy popular
By Paul Copeland
BEYOND PROPAGANDA | AUGUST 2016
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The age of information has mutated into the age of disinformation. Authoritarian rulers have learnt to
entrench their...
DIICOT head: Sky News feature report on arms trafficking in Romania was staged
The Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) prosecutors are conducting searches in seven locations in Targu Mures and Bistrita Nasaud in the...
Fake: Ukraine stops pension payments to Donbas IDPs
The Russian website Ukraina.ru reported that according to Social Policy Minister Andriy Reva, Ukraine cut the pension payments for 300,000 Donbas retirees.
Reva did not...
Research Report: Analysis of Manipulation Techniques on Selected Czech Websites
By Miloš Gregor ([email protected]), Petra Vejvodová ([email protected])
Abstract:
The aim of the analysis was to establish whether, and if so to what extent, manipulative propaganda techniques are...
Fake: Hillary Clinton seriously ill
Russian media reported massively that Americans are concerned about Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s state of health. The source of this concern is...
Fake: Ukrainian military bar OSCE observers from war zone
Officials from the separatist Luhansk National Republic announced that Ukrainian military barred OSCE Special Monitoring Mission observers from entering the town of Druzhba in...
StopFakeNews #94 with Michael Getto
The latest edition of StopFake News with public policy and electoral consultant Michael Getto. Among this week’s fakes, more claims that southern Ukraine is...
Russian media mocks new Ukrainian coin commemorating Crimean Tatar deportation
The Russian publication Lenta.ru published a manipulative news story claiming that Ukraine has issued a new coin in which the Crimean peninsula is pictured...
Fake: Spanish media call Ukrainian coat of arms ultra-nationalist and paramilitary
On August 4 scores of Spanish publications circulated a story about Ukrainian footballer Roman Zozulya claiming he arrived in Seville wearing a t-shirt with...
The biggest threat to democracy? Your social media feed
Over the past two decades, the internet has rewired civil society in unprecedented ways, propelling collective action to a radically new level of citizen...