Kseniya Kirillova: The power of disappointment
By Kseniya Kirillova, for Integrity Initiative
In the first year of the Russian-Ukrainian war, while trying to understand the origins of the patriotic upsurge that...
“It doesn’t seem like we’re striving to make third-party fact checking more practical for...
By Christine Schmidt, for NiemanLab
Happy anniversary, Facebook: Snopes quit your fact-checking partnership.
Poynter’s Daniel Funke reported Friday that Snopes has pulled out of the third-party debunking squad Facebook enlisted in...
Putin’s calendar of subversion
By Janusz Bugajsky, for CEPA
The Kremlin profits from inciting division. Here are their likely targets for 2019.
Whether the Kremlin has a special department that...
The focus of misinformation debates shifts South
By Peter Cunliffe-Jones, for NiemanLab
“In complex tinderbox societies, the potential for mis- and disinformation to sow not just social discord but real violence is...
Putinism is 21st century fascism with nuclear weapons, Yakovenko says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
Putin’s Russia manifests in one way or another all of the 14 signs of “eternal fascism” Umberto Eco has...
Movies and propaganda: How the Kremlin influences public opinion at home and abroad
By Kseniya Kirillova, for EU Today
In the middle of November British critics accused a famous Russian cartoon “Masha and the Bear” of pushing “Kremlin’s propaganda”. Specifically, The Times refers to...
Edward Lucas: How to respond to Moscow’s Azov escalation
By Edward Lucas, for CEPA
Once again, Russia has pushed the line in Ukraine. Here's how the West should have reacted after Azov.
Imagine that it is...
The Putin regime uses blackmail against its people and the West
By Kseniya Kirillova, for Integrity Initiative
As its confrontation with the West grows, Russia is increasing its use of elements of diplomatic blackmail, both veiled...
Fear and hatred: how propaganda persuades with emotion
Kseniya Kirillova, for Integrity Initiative
As Russian propaganda and disinformation spread around the world, more and more initiatives are being created to expose the lies...
Germany’s friends of the Kremlin “setting the media tone” – Reitschuster
By Kseniya Kirillova, for Integrity Initiative
Russian propagandists and agents of influence do not only operate freely in Germany, they even "set the tone" in...