Fake news for liberals: misinformation starts to lean left under Trump
The president’s tumultuous first weeks in office could influence uptick in viral sharing of misleading articles and propaganda that stoke progressive anxieties
While stories of...
Human Shields in Donetsk: Launching Grads near a Residential Area
By Bellingcat
This report was written in collaboration with the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT).
On 31 January 2017, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine recorded...
We are not paid agents of Russia, we do it out of conviction
We have found a Jobbik activist, a young communist, a Russian convicted of vandalism and a neo-Nazi among the anonymous editors of one of...
The BBC is using ‘slow news’ to fight fake news
By Jessica Davies, Digiday
The BBC is taking a stronger stance on fighting the online spread of misinformation, having launched a dedicated lie-debunking unit at the heart...
From Fake News to Fake Opinion
By Brian Mefford, Atlantic Council
A few weeks ago, a colleague asked why I was a part of an organization called the Center for Global Strategic...
Google has banned 200 publishers since it passed a new policy against fake news
The company routinely weeds out “bad ads.” Now it weeds out more bad ad publishers, too.
Google kicked 200 publishers off one of its ad...
Historical Truth Banned in Russian-Occupied Crimea
Where Russia cannot prosecute for annoyingly inconvenient but entirely provable truth, it opts for bans. It has driven out most independent media from Russian-occupied...
Fake news is a red herring
Fake news, propaganda and "disinformatzya" are changing the media landscape - in the US, Russia and Turkey and across the world. The question is...
A fake fake news checker
A case of double bluff – this was the conclusion Swedish internet users reached after a Swedish website presenting itself as the next in...
Kremlin Watch Monitor. January 25, 2017
New Publications
In every Kremlin Watch Monitor, we are recommending new publications on the topic of disinformation campaigns and hostile Russian influence. We put several...