It’s not just the content, it’s the business model: democracy’s online speech challenge
A Report from Ranking Digital Rights
By Nathalie Maréchal, Ellery Roberts Biddle, for Open Technology Institute
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Abstract
This
report, the first in a two-part series, articulates the connection...
COVID-19: to counter misinformation, journalists need to embrace a public service mission
By Stephen Cushion, for The Conversation
As COVID-19 spreads globally, so has misinformation about how to counter it. From politicians downplaying the risk it...
A Weeks’ Worth of Crazy Coronavirus Fakes
As the number of people around the world infected by the Covid-19 pandemic grows, so does the number of fakes concerning this deadly virus....
Infowars’ Jones hawked ‘nanosilver toothpaste’ fake coronavirus cure
By Polygraph
Alex JonesInfowars“The patented nanosilver we have, the Pentagon has come out and documented and Homeland Security has said this stuff kills the...
For the Kremlin, COVID-19 is not just a crisis, it’s an opportunity
By Brian Whitmore, for CEPA
A
longstanding goal of Vladimir Putin’s regime is to replace the liberal
rules-based international order with one based on spheres...
“If you want to know, you can know”
By EU vs Disinfo
Nataliya Gumenyuk is a Ukrainian journalist and the author of the book The Lost Island, which was published in Kyiv in February...
Common crisis: The implications of COVID-19 for the Transatlantic Alliance
By CEPA
GEOPOLITICS AND THE PANDEMIC: A CEPA FAQ
Alliance cohesion is under increasing strain amid public squabbling between member governments and growing fears...
Four super fake coronavirus claims (that we saw today)
By Polygraph
Everywhere onlineFake coronavirus claims are all over the internet. Below we correct a few claims about the virus origin, diagnosis, prevention and...
Moscow triangle: Russia, the European far right, and the “Third Party” to tango noir
By Anton Shekhovtsov, for CEPA
Relations between various Russian actors and European far-right parties have been the focus of many discussions in the...
How British, German, and US media cover Crimea’s annexation and the Donbas war
By Rens Wilderom, for VoxUkraine
This
article investigates how British newspapers covered Crimea’s annexation
and the Donbass war. It shows that initially an “international...