Fake: No Russian Troops in Donbas According to the Ukrainian General Staff
On October 7, Russia One’s anchorman Andrey Kondrashov falsely reported on the news program Vesti that Ukraine’s General Staff had denied the presence of...
One of the Russian Internet’s Founding Fathers Wants to ‘Erase Syria From the Map,’...
Moscow’s intervention in Syria is having some funny consequences back home in Russia. One of the strangest episodes in this story is Anton Nossik’s...
MH17 – The Open Source Evidence
This report can be downloaded as a PDF here.
Introduction
This report summarizes the open source investigations into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) on...
How to Find Information about a Website and Its Owner
On September 24, the Kharkov.News agency falsely reported that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, being drunk, had been allegedly removed from a Kyiv-Moscow flight. StopFake...
Cheltenham Literature Festival: Inside Putin’s Russia – “state control through lies”
"In chess we have fixed rules and unpredictable results," former world champion and human rights activist Gary Kasparov told Cheltenham Literature Festival. "In (Vladimir)...
Telegraph’s Crimea Travel Piece Full of Errors
On October 1, in its travel section, The Telegraph published an article by British BBC journalist John Simpson entitled “Crimea’s Charms Uncovered.” In the...
Seven strategies of domestic Russian propaganda
An important attribute of Russia’s modern policy has been the growth in military hysteria and the constant need for both internal and external enemies....
Initial Findings of the Crowdsourced Geolocation and Analysis of Russian MoD Airstrike Videos from...
Yesterday Bellingcat launched an effort to use the Checkdesk platform to geolocate and collect additional information on videos posted by the Russia Ministry of Defence...
60 Years in Journalism: Russia Reverting to Type
A year after President Obama met with Vladimir Putin and described him slouching and "looking like that bored schoolboy in the back of the...
Russian Propaganda, Disinformation, and Estonia’s Experience
The international community faces serious challenges arising from a new mode of information warfare, which Russia has deployed during the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in 2014-2015....