Crisis (non-)management, pro-Kremlin style
By EU vs Disinfo
Last week, the Disinformation Review highlighted the cynical opportunism of the pro-Kremlin media in exploiting the racial injustice protests sweeping across...
Kremlin Watch Briefing: SpaceX launch ruffles some feathers
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Germany will seek sanctions over the 2015 Bundestag cyberattack
SpaceX launch according to the Kremlin's channels: a sign of weakness of aggression?
How Russia...
A red, white and blue all-American Maidan
By EU vs Disinfo
The pro-Kremlin disinformation network and the protests in the US
In the world of the pro-Kremlin disinformation network, protests are never a...
U.S. protests incite racist words, mockery from Moscow
By Polygraph
Komsomolskaya PravdaRussian national tabloid"In the news, they are now are talking about the first people killed and even raped in Minneapolis."Source: KP.ru, June...
Exploiting crisis and denying responsibility
By EU vs Disinfo
This week, focus of the world media is on America where demonstrations against racial injustice sweep across the nation, leading to...
Trump’s antifa tweet: conflation and confusion
By Polygraph
Donald TrumpU.S. President“The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.”Source: Twitter, May 31, 2020MISLEADING
Protests erupted in the city...
Figure of the week: 23.2%
By EU vs Disinfo
Almost one-fourth of Russians (23.2%) consider the COVID-19 pandemic a fiction, concocted by the “interested parties”, Russian media reports. An additional 9%...
Chinese disinfo hits U.S. biolab with new COVID-19 conspiracy
By Polygraph
Global Times“Days before the institution's (Fort Detrick laboratory) temporary shutdown in 2019, a respiratory illness was reported on June 30 at a community...
The Malthusian straw men
By EU vs Disinfo
How pro-Kremlin outlets use cheap rhetorical tricks
A straw man is a rhetorical trick, used in polemical debate. You attack your opponent, refuting arguments,...
MIGs in Libya, contradicting Moscow’s denials
By Polygraph
Andrey Krasovdeputy chair of the Russian State Duma’s Defense Committee" yet another American scary tale. This is fake and disinformation in the spirit...