Russian Site Publishes Fake Ukrainian Finance Minister Letter
On March 26 the Russian site Ridus published what it claimed was a letter from Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko to US Assistant Secretary...
Russian Censors Target Public Wi-Fi Spots in Crusade Against Blocked Websites
Russian censors have begun policing public wireless Internet in cafes, shopping malls and public libraries, in what they say is an effort to ensure...
StopFakeNews #77 with Andriy Sawchuk
Andriy Sawchuk hosts the latest edition of StopFake News. This week’s fakes include a dubious poll about the annexation of Crimea, a fake ban...
Center for Monitoring Propaganda and Disinformation Online Set to Open in Russia
In December 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the Internet Economy Forum, where he suggested Russian federal security service and other state...
Fake: Merkel Takes Selfie with Belgian Suicide Bomber
On March 25 the obscure German website Mmnews.de published a story entitled “Merkel: a Selfie with the Brussels terrorist?” speculating whether Merkel had been...
Getting The News From Chechnya – The Crackdown On Free Press You May Have...
When a minivan with eight Russian and European journalists and human rights activists was attacked on March 9 by a band of professional thugs...
The new propaganda wars
Even though the Berlin Wall was destroyed more than a quarter-century ago and the city rebuilt, new propaganda wars are being waged here and...
Russian Media Outlets Falsely Accuse Belarusian Brothers of Brussels Attack
On March 14, eight days before the terrorist attacks in Brussels, the Russian media outlet Lifenews reported (archive) that two Belarusian brothers, Ivan and Aleksey Dovbash,...
Yahoo Reports First Content Removal Requests from the Russian Government
Yahoo, the American multinational Internet and technology company, has released its latest transparency report, listing the numbers of government requests for user data or...
Russia’s information warfare – airbrushing reality
Authors:
Ben Nimmo is a senior fellow at the Institute for Statecraft in London specialising in Russian information warfare and influence. He formerly worked as...