Figure of the Week: 25
Over the last couple of years, online disinformation has risen on the international scene as an ever-growing problem.
UK Parliament: 5 recommendations to tackle disinformation and fake news
We are facing a democratic crisis founded on manipulation of personal data and micro-targeting, MPs warn. In 2017, 11 MPs from the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee, from different political…
Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Interim Report
to the report Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 24 July 2018 Read the whole report here. There are many potential threats to our democracy and our values.
StopFake #194 with Marko Suprun
Fake: Ukraine troops kill separatist defector. Cholera found in the Azov Sea. President Poroshenko allows lumber smuggling to the EU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWe-OQEwo98
Figure of the Week: $400 Million
Last week, a series of articles was published in the U.S. media relating to a $400-million donation allegedly made by U.S.-born financier Bill Browder to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election campaign.
The Russian Military: ‘friendly and open’ or aggressive and dangerous – the evidence
“In such conditions, we demonstrate openness, friendliness and the absence of any sort of aggression against foreign countries.
Fake: Donbas Talks on Prisoner Exchange Collapse because of Ukraine
Scores of Russian media reported that the latest talks on prisoner exchanges between Ukraine and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics held in Minsk allegedly broke down because the…
Fake News and Fake Solutions: How Do We Build a Civics of Trust?
We need to start serious conversations about systemic social challenges, rather than tinkering with their effects In his recent manifesto, Mark Zuckerberg asserts that the response to our dysfunctional and…
The Trump-Putin summit was a win for Russia. Why aren’t they celebrating?
After last weekend’s summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, widely held in the West as a blow to American global leadership but hailed by Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov as “better…
Russia tries everything to blacken reputation of White Helmets
Russia escalated its long-running hate campaign against the White Helmets Syrian rescue group in response to the evacuation over the weekend of 422 volunteers and their family members to Jordan via the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.