Disinfo analysis: Moscow’s Balkan defeat
Polygraph.info has used North Macedonia as the shorter version of the new official name of the Republic of North Macedonia.
Kremlin Watch Briefing: The new British report summarizing the British inquiry into disinformation includes...
The UK Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee published its final report on disinformation with multiple recommendations, including the necessity of social media to take legal responsibility for harmful content and the reform of electoral laws.
Jakub Janda: StopFake set up the agenda of Russian disinformation as a major threat
StopFake talked to Jakub Janda, Head of the Kremlin Watch Program and Director at the European Values Think-Tank, about the current trends of Russian disinformation in Europe, contemporary challenges and the role of governments, journalists, and civil society in denouncing disinformation.
Propaganda and disempowerment
Mass media are grouped along two major concepts: Media as a Forum or media as a Tribune. This is, of course, a theoretical model to describe two ideal types of relations between the media and its audience.
Russian state media decries Ukraine for renaming its own cities
“‘Not Odessa, but Kotsyubeyev!’ Why does Kyiv erase the real names of cities” Source: RIA Novosti website FALSE Ukraine is a sovereign country that can rename its cities as it sees fit: there are no “real” names.
“Party of war” or “pro-peace?”
To discredit some of the candidates running in the upcoming Ukrainian presidential election, Kremlin propaganda outlets accuse candidates trying to defend Ukraine from Russian aggression of warmongering.
Are Russian trolls saving measles from extinction?
Scientific researchers say Russian social-media trolls who spread discord before the 2016 U.S. presidential election may also have played an unintended role in a developing global health crisis.
Witch-Hunt! Which Hunt?
This has been a rough week for Russia. The country is subject to a witch-hunt in Germany, Latvia is provoking the EU to fight with Russia, and while the EU might be decaying and falling apart, it is still…
Outside the Kremlin comfort zone
Last time it was RT. Now it’s NTV’s turn to have been found in “serious failure of compliance with impartiality rules” by the UK’s broadcasting watchdog, Ofcom.
An unfounded foundation
The Strategic Culture Foundation has all the features of a modern, state-of-the-art think tank. An all-English site; tightly laid-out with a wide choice of articles on current affairs, focusing on World Politics and Security Issues.