Facebook Threat Report: Combating Influence Operations

Over the past four years, industry, government and civil society have worked to build our collective response to influence operations (IO), which we define as “coordinated efforts to manipulate or corrupt public debate for a strategic goal.

Evolution of Russian Narratives About Ukraine and Their Export to Ukrainian Media Space (research)

PDF of the research is here. The research of Ukraine Сrisis Media Center, “Evolution of Russian Narratives About Ukraine and Their Export to Ukrainian Media Space”, within the project “Countering…

EEAS Special Report Update: Short Assessment Of Narratives And Disinformation Around The COVID-19 Pandemic...

Disclaimer: The objective of this report is to provide a snapshot overview of the current trends and insights into disinformation activities related to COVID-19/Coronavirus.

Information Bedlam: Russian and Chinese Information Operations During Covid-19

PDF file is here. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The covid-19 public health crisis involves more than a fight against the coronavirus.

On The Brink Of A New Cold War: Strengthening The Kremlin’s Anti-European Rhetoric: Main...

The Kremlin is intimidating Europe with a military threat and at the same time is stepping up anti-European propaganda.

Media literacy index of Ukrainians

The report based on the data of the quantitative research conducted by the research agency "Info Sapiens" was compiled at the request of NGO "Media Detector" by Marta Naumova, Candidate of Sociological…

Understanding online false information in the UK

As part of our duty to promote media literacy, we undertake research into how people access and use information online.

When Fact-Checking and ‘BBC Standards’ Are Helpless: ‘Fake Newsworthy Event’ Manipulation and the Reaction...

By Artem Zakharchenko 1,Tomáš Peráček 2,Solomiia Fedushko 3,*,Yuriy Syerov 3 and Olha Trach 3, for MDPI 1Institute of Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 02000 Kyiv, Ukraine 2Department…

Putin’s ‘Kittens’: How The Kremlin’s Top Ally in Ukraine Is Using Troll Armies to...

Victor Medvedchuk, Vladimir Putin’s key ally in Ukraine and the leader of the pro-Russian “Opposition Platform For Life” party, has very likely been using a huge troll army on Twitter.

Truthers Against Tragedy: How Kremlin Fans Are Trying To Discredit the MH17 Investigation On...

Russia is using disinfo networks on Twitter to discredit the tribunal prosecuting those accused of being responsible for the MH17 tragedy.