Kremlin Watch Briefing: Who is behind the top 5 Russian channels?
WHO IS BEHIND THE TOP 5 RUSSIAN CHANNELS? Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group has come up with an infographic covering the subjects behind the top 5 Russian channels: Russia 1 channel, Channel 1, Channel 5, NTV Channel and REN TV channel.
WhatsApp’s message forwarding limits do work (somewhat) to stop the spread of misinformation
Plus: “Newsworthiness” and how politicians are fact-checked on Facebook, and the number of countries with political disinformation campaigns has more than doubled in the past two years.
Poklonskaya suggests moving UN HQ to Crimea to end annexation “fairy tale”
"In order to end all speculations and outdated and very annoying fairy tales from overseas about the annexation of Crimea, it would be good to consider the opportunity of relocating the UN headquarters to Crimea, for example to Yalta.
Serbian journalists expose a ruling party bot application used to manipulate readers’ comments on...
Activists of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), nicknamed ‘SNS bots’, have been using a mobile application to post thousands of ‘up-votes’ and ‘down-votes’ on comments to articles of popular media…
The Kremlin Reads Nineteen Eighty-Four: Disinformation is Truth
Sputnik Latvia brings forward a quote by George Orwell from his novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four, commenting on the European Parliament’s resolution on the importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe: “Who controls the past, controls the future”.
Russia insults and misquotes a U.S. Air Force Commander
“The frivolity of the commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe, General Jeffrey Harrigian, and his naive belief in the superiority of some ‘plans’ for the conquest of Kaliningrad should concern primarily his immediate subordinates.
Figure of the week: 1/3
Only 1 in 3 Russians say they trust the news programmes on the state-controlled TV channels Pervyi Kanal and Rossiya 1, a recent survey by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) shows.
Ecuadorian leak. Millions of data records in the Web
In the mid-September 2019 the rarely seen personal data leak had place. The data of over twenty million Ecuadorians were put in an unsecured cloud.
Truth at any cost. Vatican versus fake news
“The task of a journalist is to identify reliable sources, putting them in the context and interpreting them”, said pope Francis on the meeting with representants of the Vatican media.
Russian Foreign Ministry denies the Soviet Union occupied Estonia
"On this subject, we would like to again emphasize that Russia’s position remains the same: we find it unacceptable to even use the term “Soviet occupation,” a construct some try to use to interpret the liberation of European nations from Nazi enslavement.