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...
Zika rumors got three times more shares than real Zika stories. What can health...
By Laura Hazard Owen, for NiemanLab
The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to...
Putin says Russia has not left the G-7 – not true
By Polygraph
Vladimir Putin
President, Russia
“We did not leave it , our colleagues refused to come to Russia due to known reasons at some point. Please,...
Disinfo analysis: Macedonia – to be or not to be… Russia’s satellite
By Polygraph
The small Balkan nation of Macedonia is increasingly a destination for the Kremlin’s political strategists, the ideologists of Russian exceptionalism and Moscow’s Orthodox mission in...
#PackOfLies: Inconvenient facts in Babchenko case
When it was announced that the Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko was murdered in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on Tuesday, it did not take long for...
Atlantic Council launches comprehensive website to track Russian disinformation
By The Atlantic Council
June 6, 2018 the Atlantic Council launched DisinfoPortal.org, an interactive online guide to track the Kremlin’s disinformation campaigns abroad. The portal...
Issue brief: How disinformation impacts politics and publics
By National Endowment for Democracy
In this Brief:
How disinformation is used and consumed
Proactive and reactive disinformation strategies in different country contexts
The scale...
Russian Citizen Fact Check: ‘Everything…is a Lie’
By Polygraph
Svetlana Sokolova
Russian regional governor
"Strunino is, of course, a small town, 14,000 residents in 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the main city, Alexandrov. And...