Facebook says 126 million people in the U.S. may have seen posts produced by...
By Tony Romm and Kurt Wagner, for Recode
Facebook, Google and Twitter plan to tell congressional investigators this week that the scope of Russia’s campaign...
Russian ‘Donetsk republic’ propagandist seized – or killed – in Donbas after speaking too...
By Halya Coynash, for Human Rights in Ukraine
While media reports of Roman Manekin’s brutal murder remain unconfirmed, there seems no doubt that the prominent...
Italy to Launch Disinformation Curriculum
By Codastory
Ahead of its 2018 parliamentary elections, Italian secondary schools will incorporate a course on identifying and debunking fake news.
The program, with the support...
Conventional bedfellows: The Russian propaganda machine and the western far right
By Anton Shekhovtsov, for Eurozine
Anton Shekhovtsov traces how pro-Kremlin forces seek to influence political processes in western democracies using local activists and politicians, and how...
Twitter bans ads from RT and Sputnik citing electoral meddling
By DW
Russia has been accused of trying to manipulate the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election. Twitter has taken action against two Russian...
Co-opting discontent: Russian propaganda in the Bulgarian media
By Dimitar Vatsov, Milena Iakimova, for Eurozine
Russian propaganda co-opts western grassroots criticism of liberalism and globalization, recasting both left and right populism in nationalist...
RT contradicts TV personality claiming to have been picked as its anchor: ‘We never...
By Anita Kőműves and Antónia Rádi, for Atlatszo
‘RT has never planned, nor are we planning a Hungarian service, and thus we never even had...
Kremlin Watch Briefing, October 24, 2017
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Russian influence and the elections in Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic
Jakub Janda, Head of the Kremlin Watch Program, co-authored a study focusing on the...
The pro-Kremlin toolbox for disinformation about chemical attacks
By EU vs Disinfo
On Thursday, the UN-OPCW Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) is about to release a report on who was responsible for a chemical attack on...
Google to build trust online by partnering with the International Fact Checking Network
By Erica Anderson, Partnerships Manager, Google News Lab
With so much information available around the clock and across devices, the ability to quickly understand what’s...