ICYMI and In The Now: The Support Vessels of the RT Flagship
RT is the flagship of the Kremlin’s international communications flotilla. Like an aircraft carrier, it is deployed far from Russian speaking shores in the international waters of the Arabic, English, German, Spanish and French languages.
StopFake #182 with Marko Suprun
Ukraine in top five world leaders in air pollution mortality, Naftogaz loses to Gazprom in EU court and Upsurge in anti-Semitism in Ukraine. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ok_HIVPhm3U&feature=youtu.be
Fake: Kyiv Breaks Talks on Prisoner Exchange with Occupied Territories
Kyiv has been doing everything possible to break down negotiations on prisoner exchange with the so-called Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics and consistently ignoring militants’ demands, official Russian and separatist sites declared last week.
Cyberattacks in Lithuania: The new normal
On 18 January Lithuania encountered a cyberattack aimed at TV3.lt website, one of the most popular TV channels in Lithuania. The initial hackers’ IP address led to St Petersburg, Russia.
Facebook vs. Russian bots: the Kremlin is winning
For over 2 months in a row InformNapalm volunteers have been struggling with the wave of Facebook bans. Currently 4 of our active members are blocked for 30 days.
Pro-Kremlin Account Presents Ad Campaign as a Real Newspaper Story
“The House of Representatives has adopted a law banning the U.S. from aiding Syria” Source: RIA Novosti FALSE H.R.
A Fake Fact Checker – Again
Copycat site to the left, original fact-checking initiative to the right. Last week, five Swedish publishers started a common fact-checking initiative, with the aim to reveal the spread of constructed and invented news, in order to contribute to an open, inclusive and fact-based public debate.
Fake: Naftogaz Loses to Gazprom in EU Court
Scores of Russian media featured stories this week claiming that the Ukrainian company Naftogaz lost a suit against the Russian company Gazprom.
Anatomy of an online misinformation network
By Chengcheng Shao, Pik-Mai Hui, Lei Wang, Xinwen Jiang, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, for PLOS One Abstract Massive amounts of fake news and conspiratorial content have…
America the Clueless or America the Context-less?: a practical, contextual approach to reporting on...
“America the clueless,” quipped the headline of an opinion piece by The New York Times’ Frank Bruni in 2013. In the piece, Bruni cites statistic after statistic showing how much Americans get wrong about the political world.









