Open Letter of European security experts to Federica Mogherini: Please start taking the Russian...

The aggressive actions of the Kremlin are unprecedented in the modern era. Invasion of neighbouring countries, massive bombings and killings of civilians, and the...

Hungarian secret agent reveals in detail how serious the Russian threat

By Szabolcs Panyi, Index Secret agents, counter-intelligence officers do not give interviews to the media very often and it is even more unique when they...

Germany announces next steps against fake news

As we have reported on several occasions, (e.g. here and here), the fight against fake news online sees new initiatives in different countries. This...

Irony Dies Again as Russia Today Launches Fake-News Debunker

In case anyone needed a reminder that we’re living in strange times: Russia Today has launched a fake-news debunking site. The Kremlin-backed news organization, a...

Tanks of Buhaivka: A training facility in Eastern Ukraine

By Klement Anders, Bellingcat On March 16, 2017, popular Ukrainian Twitter user @GirkinGirkin published a tweet sharing imagery of armored vehicles, including tanks. The user...

How to Spot Fake News

By Eugene Kiely and Lori Robertson, FactCheck Fake news is nothing new. But bogus stories can reach more people more quickly via social media than what...

Russian Lawmakers Order Probe Of RFE/RL, VOA, And CNN

The lower house of the Russian parliament has ordered a probe into whether RFE/RL’s Russian Service, Voice of America, and CNN are in compliance...

How Russia and WikiLeaks Became Allies Against the West

Some claim WikiLeaks is working for the Kremlin. The reality is hardly so simple By Matthew Kupfer, The Moscow Times The timing couldn’t have been better...

Wikileaks Switched To Russian Web Hosting During Election

By Grant Stern, OccupyDemocrats Former Wikileaks & cyber activist Laurelai Bailey just used open source information to accurately prove that Wikileaks is being transmitted physically from...

U.S. falling short in countering propaganda from other nations, experts tell Congress

By Morgan Chalfant, The Hill Experts told a House panel on Wednesday that the United States has failed to counter information operations from nation states...