Trump Overtakes Putin as Russia’s Most Discussed Celebrity
U.S. President Donald Trump has beaten Russian leader Vladimir Putin to became Russia's most-talked about public figure.
According to data from media analytics company SCAN, Trump...
Six Outrageous Lies Russian Disinformation Peddled about Europe in 2016
By Jakub Janda and Ilyas Sharibzhanov, Atlantic Council
Russian disinformation is working overtime to undermine European democracies. Much of the disinformation in 2016 came from...
Opening Cyber Salvo in the French Elections
This is gonna be a very interesting cyber conflict
On Feb 1st, 2017, Wikileaks began tweeting about the candidates in the French election coming up in...
‘Ukrainian regional news site’ linked with Putin Chef’s Internet troll factory
An apparently ‘Ukrainian’ website often quoted in the Russian media has a St. Petersburg address and is probably one of the ‘troll factory’ enterprises...
U.S. Preps for Infowar on Russia
While President Trump is still defending Vladimir Putin in public, American policymakers have finally awoken to Russian intervention in the U.S. democratic process —...
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...









