Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga
By Bellingcat Investigation Team
Bellingcat and its investigative partner The Insider – Russia have established conclusively the identity of one of the suspects in the poisoning...
Figure of the Week: 20
By EU vs Disinfo
Facebook is opening a “War Room” to protect elections from disinformation attempts on the social network.
Scheduled to become operative on 24 September, the...
Russian TV host calls war on Georgia Moscow’s ‘operation for enforcement of peace’
By Polygraph
Vladimir Solovyov
Russian TV talk show host
“It was an operation for the enforcement of peace.”
Source: Rossiya 1, September 23, 2018
FALSE
It was a war.
Vladimir...
Russian election meddling in the US and beyond
By EU vs Disinfo
On Thursday 20 September 2018, the US targeted 33 individuals and entities with sanctions over interference in the American Presidential election in 2016.
This...
Investigators Were Not Silent, Following a New Russian Claim on MH17
By Polygraph
Nicolas Dhuicq
A spokesman for the Debout La France (France Arise) party
"We are unfortunately living in a propaganda era, when media and the Western...
Facebook: Expanding fact-checking to photos and videos
By Antonia Woodford, Product Manager, Facebook
We know that people want to see accurate information on Facebook, so for the last two years, we’ve made...
Facebook’s attempts to fight fake news seem to be working. (Twitter’s? Not so much.)
By Laura Hazard Owen, for NiemanLab
Plus: How YouTubers spread far-right beliefs (don’t just blame algorithms), and another cry for less both-sides journalism.
The growing stream...
Real Russians of Miami-Dade County evade law on two continents
By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake
Russia has ordered the arrest of Florida-based businessman Sergey Slastikhin, accusing him of embezzling hundreds of millions of roubles...
Arrested for fact-checking: Kazakh court fines Ukrainian journalist after police break up media workshop
By Chris Rickleton, for Global Voices
A media fact-checking workshop in northwestern Kazakhstan came to an abrupt conclusion on September 15 when police barged in,...
How France beat back information manipulation (and how other democracies might do the same)
By Christine Schmidt, for NiemanLab
“French success resulted from a combination of structural factors, luck, as well as the effective anticipation and reaction of the...