WhatsApp’s message forwarding limits do work (somewhat) to stop the spread of misinformation
By Laura Hazard Owen, for NiemanLab
Plus: “Newsworthiness” and how politicians are fact-checked on Facebook, and the number of countries with political disinformation campaigns has...
Poklonskaya suggests moving UN HQ to Crimea to end annexation “fairy tale”
By Polygraph
Natalya Poklonskaya
Member of Russian Parliament
"In order to end all speculations and outdated and very annoying fairy tales from overseas about the annexation of...
Serbian journalists expose a ruling party bot application used to manipulate readers’ comments on...
By Filip Stojanovski, fpr Global Voices
Activists of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), nicknamed ‘SNS bots’, have been using a mobile application to post...
The Kremlin Reads Nineteen Eighty-Four: Disinformation is Truth
By EU vs Disinfo
Sputnik Latvia brings forward a quote by George Orwell from his novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four, commenting on the European Parliament’s resolution on the...
Kseniya Kirillova: Countering Russia’s ‘ideologies for export’ propaganda and disinformation war
By Ksenia Kirillova, for Homeland Security Today
The theme of the need to confront Russian propaganda is relevant for most Western countries for at least...
Is Turkey the Trojan Horse of NATO?
More and more often the need of creating the European army, the army functioning besides the NATO is brought up. It would protect the...
Russia insults and misquotes a U.S. Air Force Commander
By Polygraph
Russian Defense Ministry
“The frivolity of the commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe, General Jeffrey Harrigian, and his naive belief in the...
Figure of the week: 1/3
By EU vs Disinfo
Only 1 in 3 Russians say they trust the news programmes on the state-controlled TV channels Pervyi Kanal and Rossiya 1,...
Ecuadorian leak. Millions of data records in the Web
Sources: vpnMentor, El Comercio, El Universo, BBC
In the mid-September 2019 the rarely seen personal data leak had place. The data of over twenty million...
Truth at any cost. Vatican versus fake news
“The task of a journalist is to identify reliable sources, putting them in the context and interpreting them”, said pope Francis on the meeting...