How to hold Facebook and Google responsible for fake news
By Klára Votavová and Jakub Janda, for Atlantic Council
Online platforms have become the world’s most influential editors-in-chief. According to a 2016 Reuters Digital News...
Russia: Does website closure indicate the Kremlin is feeling economic pinch?
By Casey Michel, for Eurasianet
It seems that Russia’s economic troubles may be starting to hinder the Kremlin’s use of electronic media to push its...
How do you collude in Russian? You don’t!
By Michele A. Berdy, for The Moscow Times
Вступить в тайный сговор: to collude
With all this talk in the U.S. about collusion and Russians, I...
Majority of young Russians watch Kremlin-funded news
By The Moscow Times
State-run television is the principal source of news for a majority of young Russians, the independent Russian television channel Dozhd reported Friday.
Fifty-four percent of Russians aged...
Does ‘countering Russian mischief’ mean being anti-Russian?
By Urve Eslas, for CEPA
On 11 July, a group of senior U.S. and European officials gathered in Washington to launch the transatlantic Alliance for...
Denmark to educate soldiers in combatting disinformation
By East Stratcom
Training in how to combat pro-Kremlin disinformation is a “top priority” for the 200 Danish soldiers who will be deployed to Estonia...
Fake news, criticism and censorship
By East Stratcom
Speaking at the third Russia-China media forum in Moscow recently, Sputnik and RT’s Editor in Chief proposed that Russian and Chinese media...
Two new signs Russians are ceasing to trust the Kremlin’s messages
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
In a lead article today, the editors of Nezavisimaya gazeta say that for the first time fewer than half...
Mixed Kremlin reaction to Bellingcat report on MH17 shootdown
By Donald N. Jensen, for CEPA
The latest report by investigative search network Bellingcat on the 17 July 2014 shootdown of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17...
Russian news agency ‘RBC’ refuses to publish investigative report on a ‘secret torture prison’...
By Meduza
The news agency RBC refused to publish an investigative story by journalist Ilya Rozhdestvensky about a “secret prison” allegedly operated outside Moscow by...