Fighting the disinformation virus: Georgia edition
By EU vs Disinfo
This week the Disinformation Review comes to you straight from Georgia, the land of ancient traditions, home of the “first Europeans”,...
In Russia, individuals can now be branded ‘foreign agents’
By RuNet Echo, for Global Voices
Today, Russia's State Duma passed the third and final reading of a new bill expanding the scope of the...
Who becomes a Reddit conspiracy theorist? They have these things in common
By Laura Hazard Owen, for NiemanLab
Plus: “Subtly inducing people to think about the concept of accuracy decreases their sharing of false and misleading...
Kremlin Watch Briefing: NATO is allegedly brain-dead. What does the Kremlin think?
Topics of the Week
Russia takes advantage of the power vacuum in the Balkans to expand its economic and political influence.
US Senate sheds light on...
Governments countering disinformation: the case of Italy
By Christina la Cour, for Disinfo Portal
Fake news and disinformation are divisive topics in Italy. There
is far from consensus on the size...
Erdoğan calls U.S. House of Representatives’ resolution on Armenian genocide ‘slander’
By Polygraph
Recep Tayyip ErdoğanPresident, Turkey“We are saddened that a slander against our country is being accepted by a country’s parliament. We would consider...
Gazprom’s Double Standards
By EU vs Disinfo
The Russian state-controlled energy company Gazprom wants to be known
in Europe as a serious business partner capable of providing a...
Fake news grabs our attention, produces false memories and appeals to our emotions
By Rachel Anne Barr, for The Conversation
“Fake news” is a relatively new term, yet it’s now seen as one of the
greatest threats to...
Russian TV’s False Claims About Morales, Pompeo
By Polygraph
Olga Skabeyeva, Yevgeny PopovRussian state TV hosts“We know perfectly well those who arranged all this, who sought the resignation of Morales –...
Who’s Afraid of the Brown Stink Bug?
By EU vs Disinfo
Measles and swine flu epidemics, bioweapons, lethal experiments
on people… – Georgian Lugar Lab has been subject of a massive
disinformation...