Why it is important to keep sanctions against Russian social networks in Ukraine
By Oksana Iliuk, for Ukraine World
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky regards the ban on Russian online platforms to be inefficient. Meanwhile, Ukraine is still facing...
Governments making “fake news” a crime risk stifling real journalism — accidentally or intentionally
By Alana Schetzer, for NiemanLab
Lumping together disinformation campaigns with news the government says isn’t in the “public interest” is a recipe for abuse.
The rapid...
Macedonian PM publicly apologizes after he was deceived by pro-Kremlin Russian pranksters
By Metamorphosis Foundation, for Global Voices
This story originally appeared on Meta.mk News Agency, a project of Metamorphosis Foundation. An edited version is published below as part...
Russian pundit claims liberal governments at war with religion
By Polygraph
Alexander Nekrassov
Political Analyst
“Liberalism worships two things: money and debauchery ... Eventually, this worship made all democracies morph into atheistic regimes, who’ve been witch-hunting...
Russian ex-cosmonaut claims to have seen from space with ‘naked eye’ Ukrainian shelling of...
By Polygraph
Elena Serova
Russian State Duma Deputy, ex-cosmonaut
"From the board of the International Space Station, I got to see with the naked eye, how the...
Rule, Britannia! A Round Table without King Arthur
By EU vs Disinfo
In 1909, a group of British colonialists took the initiative to create a group, called the Society of the Round Table....
Putin tells Elton John Russia ‘unbiased’ toward LGBT community
By Polygraph
Vladimir Putin
Russian President
"We really have a very smooth relationship with members of the LGBT community – really calm, perfectly unbiased.”
Source: Ria Novosti...
Operation Secondary Infektion: The DFRLab Exposes a New Russian Influence Campaign
By EU vs Disinfo
Allegations of planned political assassinations, lurid forgeries, false flag attacks, brazen online impersonations… the universe of Russian disinformation grows ever more...
Figures of the week: 3-10
By EU vs Disinfo
It took 3 to 10 days for the Russian Internet Research Agency to increase polarization of the #BlackLivesMatter debate on Twitter,...
Lost in translation
By EU vs Disinfo
Imagine that you are a politician or an expert commentator, and a Russian state-controlled TV channel calls you and asks for...