Separating Fact and Fiction in the Svitlodarsk Bulge
Verification of claims surrounding the heavy fighting in the Donbas
By DFRLab
Since December 18, fighting has continued to claim the lives of Ukrainian and separatist...
Kremlin Watch Monitor. December 22, 2016
New Publications
Our Jakub Janda argues in the Observer that Angela Merkel is going to be the next target of the Russian disinformation campaign. Here...
Spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry Accuses Facebook of Working With ISIS
Maria Zakharova, the colorful spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry, accused Facebook administrators of working for the Islamic State, after the network temporarily unpublished one...
Russians Increasingly Skeptical of ‘False’ and ‘Biased’ News
The number of Russians who think media reports are false or biased has doubled in the last 12 months, a report by Russian journalism...
Facebook has a plan to fight fake news. Here’s where we come in
By Benjamin Mullin and Alexios Mantzarlis, Poynter
Facebook announced today that it is taking several steps to reduce the reach of fake news. One of...
The real history of fake news
By David Uberti, CJR
In an 1807 letter to John Norvell, a young go-getter who had asked how to best run a newspaper, Thomas Jefferson...
Four tricky ways that fake news can fool you
By Daniel Levitin, Ideas.TED.com
What looks like (and reads like) the truth may be riddled with lies if you look more closely, says neuroscientist Daniel...
Russian State-Run TV Network Refuses to Give Former U.S. Ambassador His Own Show
By Kevin Rothrock, Global Voices
As the U.S. media explodes with reports about “Russian cyberpower” and the Kremlin’s “perfect weapon,” one of the biggest American...
The Kremlin’s Voice: Johan Bäckman
The Kremlin’s Voice, is a new UpNorth series profiling some of the most outspoken cheerleaders and spokesmen for the Putin regime around the world:...
Kremlin Disinformation and the Dutch Referendum
By Robert van der Noordaa, for Integrity Initiative
On 6 April 2016, a non-binding referendum was held in Holland on the EU’s Association Agreement with...