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...
The Ultimate Cure for the Fake-News Epidemic Will Be More Skeptical Readers
New algorithms will help — but users' skepticism is the ultimate weapon
By David Pogue, Scientific American February 2017 Issue
“Pope Francis Shocks World, Endorses Donald...
Are Russia’s Closed Discussion Clubs Becoming ‘Hybrid’ Think Tanks or Something More?
Russia lacks the tradition of think tanks found in many Western capitals, but the rise of closed discussion clubs where Russian officials, businessmen and...
COMMENTARY: Means, goals and consequences of the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign
The EU’s East StratCom Task Force was set up by EU High Representative Federica Mogherini in 2015, in response to a request from all...
Putin’s throwback propaganda playbook
By Yardena Schwartz, Columbia Journalism Review
Russian President Vladimir Putin had dreamed of becoming an intelligence agent ever since high school. “What amazed me most...
Russian Poet Faces New Criminal Charges for Poem in Support of Ukraine
Alexander Byvshev is facing another prosecution under Russia’s ‘anti-extremism’ legislation over a poem entitled ‘On Ukraine’s Independence’. A search was carried out on Jan...