Figure of the Week: 50 million
By EU vs Disinfo
The data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica took private information from more than 50 million U.S. Facebook users without their permission to...
Fake: Crimean Tatars Voter Turnout Greater for March 18 Russian Presidential Elections than Any...
The Kremlin claims that more Crimean Tatars turned out to vote in last weekend’s Russian presidential elections than in any elections held under Ukrainian...
Skripal Poisoning: If Not Russia, Then…:The many theories of who used a Russian nerve...
By DFRLab
Ever since the British media began suggesting that Russia was behind the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal with a rare nerve agent...
Putin’s Vision of a New ‘World Order’ Increasingly Worrisome, Kirillova Says
By Paul Goble, Window on Ukraine
It is perhaps emblematic of the times, but Vladimir Putin is increasingly using video clips and full-scale films to...
StopFake #175 with Marko Suprun
Fake: Ukraine’s military command announces punitive Donbas campaign and Crimea offensive; Ukraine to force Crime and Donbas residents to repent; Ukrainian tracks in the...
Putin’s Brezhnev Moment
By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL
So, Vladimir Putin just had another Leonid Brezhnev moment.
Last year, the current Kremlin leader surpassed the longtime Soviet ruler in...
Fake: UN Recognizes Russian Telephone Code for Crimea
Russian media disseminated a fake story this week claiming that the United Nations International Telecommunication Union recognized the Russian telephone code of Crimea, thereby...
Fake: British Apologize for Boris Johnson
Pro-Kremlin media is disseminating stories claiming that the British public has criticized Foreign Minister Boris Johnson for his position on the poisoning of former...
#ElectionWatch: Voter Fraud In Russia
By DFRLab
On March 18, Russia held presidential elections, widely expected to re-elect Vladimir Putin to a fourth presidential term by a wide margin.
With Putin’s...
Little green men: the annexation of Crimea as an emblem of pro-Kremlin disinformation
By EU vs Disinfo
Among the many different examples of factually wrong claims that have come out of the Kremlin and media outlets loyal to...