Brian Whitmore: Propaganda labs
By Brian Whitmore, for CEPA
Covid-19 Has Revived the Freddy Krueger of Kremlin Disinformation Narratives
For years, Kremlin-backed media and surrogates have been vilifying laboratories in...
Propaganda backfire: the Kremlin’s conspiracy theories undermine its own authority
By Kseniya Kirillova, for Byline
By supporting theories aimed at destabilising the US during the Coronavirus pandemic, Kseniya Kirillova reports on how Putin has opened...
A bad day in court for NS2: litigation, disinformation, and Russia’s energy weapon
By Alan Riley, for CEPA
Nord Stream 2 is in battle mode. The Russian-German gas project appears to be applying every possible legal argument and...
Infodemic in Italy: A Parliamentary intelligence committee lays bare Russian and Chinese interference
By Francesco Bechis, for CEPA
It’s official: China and Russia used the covid-19 pandemic to propagate and spread disinformation in Italy, exploiting the emergency for...
Edward Lucas: Irony amid the menace. Echos of a captive past
By Edward Lucas, for CEPA
Vladimir Putin is often criticized for his nostalgia for the USSR (he memorably called its collapse a “geopolitical catastrophe”). But...
The Kremlin’s numbers racket
By Brian Whitmore, for CEPA
A Persistent and Prolific Propaganda Machine Meets a Deadly Global Pandemic. Now What Happens?
Despite sharing a 4,200-kilometer (2,600-mile) border with China,...
The Atlantic’s executive editor talks conspiracy theories, journalistic norms, and new products for all...
By Sarah Scire, for NiemanLab
“I had people believing outlandish, harmful things who were repeating back to me the values that I, as a journalist,...
Stanisław Żaryn: Putin’s “corona-diplomacy”
By Stanisław Żaryn, for StopFake
In the COVID-19 pandemic Vladimir Putin sees a chance to pull Russia out of its international isolation. Therefore, the coronavirus...
Brian Whitmore: A viral Victory Day
By Brian Whitmore, for CEPA
The subdued Victory Day celebrations in Russia this weekend were an apt metaphor for the state of Vladimir Putin's propaganda...
A Backward looking nation: WWII memory as a consensus building event in today’s Russia
By Maria Snegovaya, for CEPA
The phenomenon is called “Pobedobesie,” or “victory frenzy.” The May 9 anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in the...