Fake: Obama Accuses Ukraine Authorities of Genocide
On September 23, internet media posted false reports claiming that U.S. President Barack Obama had “accused Ukrainian authorities of the genocide of their own...
Kremlin Mouthpiece Sets Up UK Base in Edinburgh
IT is the voice of the Kremlin and it is to bellow from Edinburgh's West End.
Sputnik News - a state mouthpiece of Vladimir Putin's...
Activists Leak Russian Government’s Plans to Create a ‘National Internet’
The data-leaking blog Anonymous International, also known as Shaltai-Boltai (Humpty Dumpty), has published the Russian government’s project proposal for creating a "national information platform,"...
Fake: Drunken Poroshenko Removed from Kyiv-Moscow Flight
Russian and pro-Russian media falsely reported on September 24 that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had been intoxicated the previous day when he was not...
Fake: REN-TV Shows U.S. Ambassador at Opposition Rally
On September 20, Russian opposition groups held a rally in the Maryino district of Moscow. The event, however, will most likely be remembered for...
Photo Depicting Donbas Boy Looking for His Mother Was Staged
In mid-September, social networkers began actively spreading a staged photo of a boy walking amidst shelled buildings. The post accompanying the photo claimed that...
Photo Fakes: Party of Regions Billboards for DPR Elections
On September 17, the news site informator.lg.ua reported that the Party of Regions would participate in “elections” in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR)....
Russia Has Weaponized Its National Trauma
The Kremlin’s drive to weaponize information for the sake of rallying an already traumatized population behind an unrecognized, unjust war is leaving deep-seated scars...
UK Regulator Ofcom Backs BBC in Russian TV Case
The BBC has won a case against Russian TV channel RT, which claimed the corporation faked a report on Syria.
The station said the BBC...
Putin’s Information Warfare in Ukraine: Soviet Origins of Russia’s Hybrid Warfare
Russia has been using an advanced form of hybrid warfare in Ukraine since early 2014 that relies heavily on an element of information warfare...