No Evidence for Putin claim that ‘scumbag’ Skripal sanctified in West
Some media outlets are “pushing through a theory that Mr. Skripal is some sort of a rights activist. He’s plainly a spy. A traitor to his homeland. There’s such a thing – being a traitor to the homeland.
Russia’s double media standards
“Russophobic sentiment in the media is being ratcheted up in France under the pretext of countering disinformation”.
Fake: Soldiers and Children Dying in Donbas because of Ukrainian Mines
On October 1, 2018 the deputy commander of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) operational command Eduard Basurin announced that as a result of a Ukrainian mine detonating near the eastern mining city of Horlivka one Ukrainian soldier was killed and two others gravely injured.
Figure of the Week: 10
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has seen a coordinated disinformation campaign targeting its referendum on changing the name of the country, and some fingers are pointing in Moscow’s direction due to the coverage by Russian state media.
Don’t feed the Kremlin’s trolls!
Old tropes about American hegemony, Western neo-colonialism, and hypocrisy appear constantly on Kremlin-friendly outlets in Romania (such as Sputnik and other fringe websites and blogs) and on Facebook.
RT top manager plagiarised his dissertation
The news director of RT America, Mikhail Solodovnikov, plagiarised substantial parts of the Ph.D. dissertation he defended in 2011.
Fear and hatred: how propaganda persuades with emotion
As Russian propaganda and disinformation spread around the world, more and more initiatives are being created to expose the lies and distortions emanating from the Kremlin: projects to expose fake news…
Americans feel they can best distinguish news from opinion in local TV news; worst,...
Only 43 percent of Americans find it easy to distinguish opinion from news on digital news sites or social media, according to a survey from the American Press Institute.
Russian Church spokesman falsely compares Ukrainian Church to Nazis
Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) Bishop of Russian Orthodox Church and Head of the Department of External Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church “The Ukrainian authorities want to completely seize the Ukrainian Church, to outlaw it, and for this purpose various kinds of bills are being created.
Fake: Norwegian Diplomats Recognize Crimea as Russian
A diplomatic delegation from Norway arrived with an official visit to Crimea declared scores of Russian headlines on October 3.