Fake: Ukraine Announces New Foreign Policy towards Africa
On September 30, Russian media distorted comments by Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s Ambassador-at-Large, reporting that, as a new policy, Ukraine plans to align more closely...
Russian and Separatist Media Distort Savchenko’s Words
On September 29, Russian and separatist media mockingly distorted a comment made by a Ukrainian politician and pilot who is now being tried in...
When Online Kremlin Propaganda Leaves the Web, It Looks Like This
In previous investigative pieces for RuNet Echo, Lawrence Alexander has exposed a large network of pro-Kremlin websites, and (together with Aric Toler) provided an in-depth...
Fact-checking Vladimir Putin’s speech at the UN
On September 28, 2015 Russian President Vladimir Putin took the stage at the UN General Assembly for the first time in a decade. “Putin...
StopFakeNews #53 [ENGLISH] with Guy Archer
This week, publisher and editor Guy Archer is the StopFake News guest anchor. Websites manipulate and post a staged photo of a young boy...
Kremlin’s Domestic PR Campaign Is a Sad Farce
Russia's media and political bosses have managed to shift the nation's attention from Ukraine to Syria in the past few weeks. Damascus and Aleppo now fill the air waves in place of Donetsk and Kramatorsk....
To combat Kremlin’s message, West gets into Russian broadcasting biz
Jelena Solomina, a petite blond, and Dmitri Pastuhhov, whose wavy mane of hair is pulled back with sunglasses, pace across their unfinished television studio...
Cross-pollination among problematic social networks
Having followed with some interest the work @GCINEWS has been doing to expose the leftwing UK allies of Putin's Russia, I decided to take...
Fighting the Information War
Information has always been part of conflict. Thucydides detailed the effects of messages dispatched during the Peloponnesian War, and "narrative" is frequently cited today...
Faked Fake: Russian Media Report on Football Player Appointed as Ambassador
On September 24, several Ukrainian media falsely reported that Russian television channel Zvezda, famous for its fake news items about Ukraine, had reported that...