At his 15th year-end presser, Putin recycles false claims
By Polygraph
Vladimir PutinPresident, RussiaClaims about WADA doping ban, Maria Butina's foreign agent plea, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili's killing in Berlin.Source: Kremlin.ru, Dec. 19, 2019 False...
Disinformation Review: A State of Panic
By EU vs Disinfo
One element that strikes anyone who follows pro-Kremlin media is
an omnipresent state of fear, anxiety, panic, anguish… Everything is
sinking,...
Russian Foreign Minister: ‘Meddling or non-meddling… No collusion’
By Polygraph
Sergey LavrovForeign Minister, Russia“We have highlighted once again that all speculations about our alleged interference in the domestic processes in the United...
Kremlin’s increasingly positive image of Stalin leading to whitewashing of deportations, specialists on the...
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
Moscow’s promotion of the Great Victory in World War II, the basis of the current regime’s legitimacy, has...
People who are given correct information still misremember it to fit their own beliefs
By Laura Hazard Owen, for NiemanLab
Plus: “There is no bygone era of a well-informed, attentive public. What we have had in lieu...
Disinformation as Damage Control
By EU vs Disinfo
Last week Germany expelled two employees at the Russian embassy in
Berlin in connection with the murder of a Georgian asylum-seeker...
NTV plays with fire
By EU vs Disinfo
On 29 November the Russian state-controlled network NTV broadcast a smear documentary targeting Russian NGO activists alongside European diplomats.
The production applied...
Kremlin denies knowledge of MH17 suspect it included in prisoner exchange
By Nik Yarst, for Polygraph
Dmitry PeskovRussian Presidential Spokesman"No, you know, this is a question that has nothing to do with the Kremlin, so I...
Multiple measures failed to control mis- and disinformation in Tunisia’s 2019 elections
By Yosr Jouini, for Global Voices
Facebook's Ad Library 'failed to provide any measures of transparency'
On October 23, 2019, Tunisia's...
Russia’s response to Olympic ban: ‘Chronic anti-Russian hysteria’
By Polygraph
Yevgeny RevenkoDeputy Secretary General, United Russia party“I am sure this decision is to a large extent political. I cannot call it honest...