Thursday, April 2, 2026

Research

Disinformation, ‘fake news’ and influence campaigns on Twitter

By Knight Foundation DOWNLOAD PDF THIS STUDY IS ONE OF THE LARGEST ANALYSES TO DATE ON HOW FAKE NEWS SPREAD ON TWITTER BOTH DURING AND AFTER...

Americans feel they can best distinguish news from opinion in local TV news; worst,...

By Christine Schmidt, for NiemanLab Only 43 percent of Americans find it easy to distinguish opinion from news on digital news sites or social media,...

Fakes Debunked by the StopFake Project between 2014-2017: Narratives and Sources

This analytical report includes the results of research conducted by StopFake analysts based on archived data of debunked messages from Russian media. The StopFake project...

Russia’s Use of Media and Information Operations in Turkey

By Katherine Costello, for RAND Copyright: RAND Corporation Availability: Web-Only Pages: 19 DOI: 10.7249/PE278 Document Number: PE-278-A Year: 2018 Series: Perspectives Russian media have sought to undermine Turkey's political and security cooperation with...

Americans expect to get their news from social media, but they don’t expect it...

By Christine Schmidt, for NiemanLab Forty-two percent of Democrats say the news they get on social media has helped their understanding of current events, compared...

Russian influence in the media sectors of the Black Sea countries

By Center for the Study of Democracy The report explores Russia’s corporate presence and influence in the media sectors of five Black Sea countries (Bulgaria,...

2018 Ranking of countermeasures by the EU28 to the Kremlin’s subversion operations

By European Values This report is a follow-up to the Overview of countermeasures by the EU28 to the Kremlin’s subversion operationsconducted by the European Values Think-Tank and...

Countering information influence activities: A handbook for communicators

By RIB-Meny The handbook aims to assist and support communication specialists in public administration to identify, analyse and counter information influence activities in order to...

We researched Russian trolls and figured out exactly how they neutralise certain news

Xymena Kurowska, Aberystwyth University et Anatoly Reshetnikov, Central European University Russian “troll factories” have been making headlines for some time. First, as the Kremlin’s digital...

5 ways to identify a bot (also a Russian one)

There are no better experts in fighting against fake news and disinformation than Americans. No wonder. They are wise after the event – for...