Children as a tool: How Russia militarizes kids in the Donbas and Crimea
With an eye to the future, officials in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine are waging a campaign of “patriotic education” aimed at reaching the hearts and minds of those most susceptible to ideological persuasion: children.
#EUelections2019: The EU Must Take Disinformation Seriously
When the EU unveiled its Action Plan against Disinformation in December 2018, some experts welcomed the plan as a good first step toward a savvier and better-equipped West.
Hyped Russian robot turns out to be Korean
“Russian military robots perform workout exercises in front of Putin,” the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti told in a tweet on 23 April.
Kremlin Watch Briefing: Can the EU limit the impact of disinformation ahead of the...
Worth following! Atlantic Council's DisinfoPortal launches “The Drop,” a new newsletter aiming at using global expertise to advance understanding of the threat of disinformation and to move the debate about the topic forward, towards needed solutions.
The claim on Russian state TV that NATO doubles defense spending is baseless
“All of the NATO countries are doubling their budgets starting this year. Source: Rossiya 1, May 3, 2019 False NATO countries not doubling defense budgets On May 3, the Russian political talk show 60 Minutes…
Figure of the week: 52.8%
Proverb of a pro-Kremlin outlet: if 52.8% of respondents don’t fit into your story, just ignore them. On April 28th, RT wrote: “A Bertelsmann Foundation study found that right-wing parties with a populist…
A disillusioned democrat
It is now five years since the EU began to introduce sanctions against individual key actors in Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. One of the names to appear on the EU’s lists was that of Dmitry Kiselyov.
Figure of the week: 400 000
RT’s video about the Mueller report was recommended over 400 000 times on YouTube, Washington Post reports. The research by AlgoTransparency reveals that RT’s clip was recommended to viewers looking at videos…
Russia Today editor hits Reuters with a false claim
“We're showing a rally in support of Maduro in Caracas. Reuters is showing a green boulevard. Q.E.D. Source: Telegram, May 1, 2019 False Reuters’ actually was sending live video of protests in Paris, France.
EU Elections Update: The Long Game
With the European parliamentary elections approaching in less than a month’s time, we devote this week’s Disinfo Review to a brief summary of the ongoing disinformation trends surrounding the elections.