Fake: European IP Registry Recognizes DPR Independence
On July 2, Russian media (such as topwar.ru, Pravda.ru) and Ukrainian media (ain.ua, apostrophe.com.ua, korrespondent.net) falsely reported that the European IP-address registry recognized the independence...
Russia 24 Falsely Reports on Poroshenko’s Proposed Amendments to Constitution
The Russian television network Russia 24 falsely reported about new powers it said would be conferred upon the president of Ukraine after the adoption...
Conspiracy theorists will truly believe anything, says science
Admit it, you love to hate-read the conspiracy theory BS your friend or relative regurgitates all over Facebook. But have you ever asked yourself...
Mark Galeotti: The West Is Too Paranoid About Russia’s “Infowar”
Never mind the old missile gap, what about the meme gap? There is something of a panic in the West that it is "losing the information war" with Russia.
On one...
Fake: Ukraine Halts Electrical Power to Crimea
On June 30, the Russian Ministry of Energy misleadingly reported on its website that Ukraine was stopping the supply of electricity to Crimea: “On...
Russia 1 Wrongly Reports of Energy Ministry Appointment
On June 30 the site Vesti.ru (Russia 1 TV channel) incorrectly reported that Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko appointed 24-year-old Dmitry Vovk as Ukraine’s Minister of...
Pro-Putin Think Tank Based In New York Shuts Down
A pro-Kremlin think tank based in New York City is shutting down, an official with the group told BuzzFeed News on Tuesday.
“I can confirm...
What happens when a curation site emphasizes fact-checking?
Upworthy defines itself as a curation site for “compelling, meaningful” content — and that content is typically shared widely, often going viral. When Upworthy...
Russian Media Invent “Union of Zakarpattia and Lviv Regions”
The Russian newspaper Vzglyad has published an article entitled “Zakarpattia May Follow Crimea and Donbas” that falsely claims that the Ukrainian regions of Zakarpattya...
Hashtags and User Networks in the Putin-Poroshenko Twitter Chatter
This article is part of a citizen-media data-analysis project, a collaboration between RuNet Echo and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Explore...