Putin announces plan to ‘replace’ Wikipedia
An electronic version of the Great Russian Encyclopedia would provide "reliable information," says the president.
Incompetent disinformation
The greatest threat to the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign is not always a strong pushback by the Kremlin’s external opponents.
Disinformation Review: In the cards this week
Cartomancy is the concept of fortune-telling, using a deck of cards. The similarity with traditional pro-Kremlin disinformation is strong: the disinformation operative uses unfounded and vague claims…
The world according to Macron
Is Global France Compatible With the Atlantic World? Atlanticists have complained for decades that the European end of the Alliance is timid in its actions and parochial in its outlook.
RIA Novosti inserts false claims in article on interview with MH17 suspect
"Kyiv blamed the disaster on the militias, who said they did not have the means to shoot down an aircraft at such an altitude.
Why Facebook is more revealing on nudity than on Russian disinformation
Researchers, election observers, and governments alike all struggle to measure the scope and impact of Russian disinformation campaigns.
“Distracting the audience from the real problems”
Maria Borzunova is a Russian journalist who works for the independent online TV channel TV Rain. Together with her colleague Ilya Shepelin, she hosts a weekly programme on TV Rain called ‘Fake News’, which…
OSCE Media Rep collaborates with Russia on propaganda event in Moscow
An OSCE conference has taken place in Moscow and been very widely covered by Russian state-controlled media. This is hardly surprising, given the clear propaganda benefit for Russia from the event on 6…
“Russia is the world champion in free speech”
“Russia is the world champion in free speech. This claim was made by the Russian TV host and state media boss Dmitry Kiselyov during a lecture he delivered to students of journalism at Moscow State University on 23 October.
Whataboutism at its best
Paedophilia in Finland. Civil war in the US. Total feminist destruction of men in the West. The usual fever dreams of the pro-Kremlin media were out in full force this week (ok, when are they not?!), milking…