“God-level trolling” – Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maria Zakharova promotes debunked Internet...
By Eliot Higgins, for Bellingcat
Following the recent publication of information about the two suspects in the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal a number of...
Figure of the Week: 50
By EU vs Disinfo
French government think tanks have issued 50 recommendations to combat “information manipulations.”
The recommendations are part of an exhaustive new study published by the...
Russian propaganda fakes ‘praise for Hitler’ by Ukrainian Speaker Parubiy
By Halya Coynash, for Human Rights in Ukraine
Russia has been caught brazenly fabricating a ‘scandal’ around invented praise of Adolf Hitler by Andriy Parubiy,...
Russian Police Say the Election Day Was ‘Calmest,’ After Clamping Down on Country-wide Protests
By Polygraph
Ministry of Internal Affairs (Police), Russia
“In general, the situation during the united Election Day remained calm.”
Source: RIA-Novosti, September 9, 2018
FALSE
Scores detained during the...
Russian Humor or Honest Confession? RT Admits it is Kremlin’s Propaganda Bullhorn
By Polygraph
RT
Russian information agency
“The president of France slanders us because we slander him.”... “The longer you watch, the more upset Hillary Clinton becomes.”
Source: RT...
“Not the murderer, but the murdered is guilty!”
By EU vs Disinfo
As our favourite parody account Darth Putin frequently reminds us, one of the most repeated disinformation tactics is to accuse your counterpart...
What approaches are in play for fighting misinformation? Let us count the ways
By Nancy Watzman, Katie Donnelly, And Jessica Clark, for NiemanLab
In March 2017, the Knight Foundation, Democracy Fund, and the Rita Allen Foundation hosted a...
Kremlin Watch Briefing: Russia created fake independent news sites in the Baltics
Topics of the Week
State-owned Russian news agency financed three seemingly-independent news sites in the Baltic countries that were instructed to produce pro-Kremlin content.
Michael Carpenter: “Russia’s manipulation of...
UK’s Skripal evidence obliterates hollow Russian propaganda
By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake
The morning after the OPCW confirmed that Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley had been poisoned by novichok in the...
Potemkin Videos
By EU vs Disinfo
The story about Russia’s 18th Century “Potemkin villages” is well known also outside Russia.
When Catherine the Great travelled with foreign dignitaries to inspect the...