Fake: Merkel Takes Selfie with Belgian Suicide Bomber
On March 25 the obscure German website Mmnews.de published a story entitled “Merkel: a Selfie with the Brussels terrorist?” speculating whether Merkel had been...
Getting The News From Chechnya – The Crackdown On Free Press You May Have...
When a minivan with eight Russian and European journalists and human rights activists was attacked on March 9 by a band of professional thugs...
The new propaganda wars
Even though the Berlin Wall was destroyed more than a quarter-century ago and the city rebuilt, new propaganda wars are being waged here and...
Russian Media Outlets Falsely Accuse Belarusian Brothers of Brussels Attack
On March 14, eight days before the terrorist attacks in Brussels, the Russian media outlet Lifenews reported (archive) that two Belarusian brothers, Ivan and Aleksey Dovbash,...
Yahoo Reports First Content Removal Requests from the Russian Government
Yahoo, the American multinational Internet and technology company, has released its latest transparency report, listing the numbers of government requests for user data or...
Russia’s information warfare – airbrushing reality
Authors:
Ben Nimmo is a senior fellow at the Institute for Statecraft in London specialising in Russian information warfare and influence. He formerly worked as...
Russian Media Publicize Dubious Crimea Poll
On the eve of the second anniversary of the Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, official Russian publications RTand Ria Novosti published stories claiming that...
Fake: Kyiv City Council Proposes Completely Banning Russian
The Russian web publication Ukraina.ru published a story claiming that “representatives of the Ukrainian capital’s government are advocating the exclusive use of the Ukrainian...
Nenad Pejic: Assignment To Harass
On Friday, March 18, around 7 p.m., my colleague was waiting in her apartment in downtown Moscow for a delivery from a nearby grocery...
Major Cyber Attacks on ‘False Propaganda’ Swedish Media
A series of coordinated cyber attacks knocked Sweden’s main newspapers offline for several hours over the weekend, with early reports suggesting the attacks originated...