Internet users fed up with fake news
Source: Reuters Institute / BBC
Fewer and fewer people use Facebook as the source of information and the platform to discuss them. The reason is...
Anatomy of a Russian ‘troll factory’ news site
By Aric Toler, for Bellingcat
When browsing through stories on the newly-established media outlet USAReally.com, you may think that you are reading a procedural-generated site...
Figure of the Week: 0
By EU vs Disinfo
The downing of flight MH17 has been one of the most lied-about events in recent years, and the disinformation campaign surrounding the tragedy...
Improving the Western strategy to combat Kremlin propaganda and disinformation
By Anton Barbashin, for Atlantic Counsil
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Since Putin’s annexation of Crimea and military aggression in Donbas—and especially since the 2016 US presidential...
Baltic Brutality?
By EU vs Disinfo
A dark image of the Baltic states was (again), painted in pro-Kremlin disinformation this week. Firstly, the Latvian Army was accused of...
Putin and Trump understand propaganda; their liberal opponents don’t, Moscow commentator says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
An anonymous commentator on Telegram’s Red Zion channel who was picked up today by Novyye izvestiya says that both Vladimir Putin...
Scottish sheriff slams Russia’s fake justice system
By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake
Russian state witnesses used ad hominem attacks and whataboutism - standard tactics by Vladimir Putin’s regime – in a...
What Putin says about rights and freedoms in Russia vs. the facts
By Polygraph
Vladimir Putin
President of the Russian Federation
“Our mass media is free. People are free to speak out and make a name for themselves as...
Russian journalist forced to resign for criticizing pro-Putin propaganda on Instagram
By Global Voices
On May 24, 2018, reporter Alexandra Terikova was forced to resign for posting an Instagram video of kindergarten students singing a song for Russian...
Austrian TV confronts Putin with the issue of disinformation
By EU vs Disinfo
Ahead of Vladimir Putin’s visit to Vienna on 5 June – his first trip to the EU after he was re-elected...