Fake: Right Radicals Beat Up Kharkiv Children for Speaking Russian
Scores of Russian media – the Defense Ministry television channel Zvezda, REN TV, Sputnik Novosti, Radio Mayak, Russkiy Mir and others – published a...
Kremlin Watch Monitor. October 17, 2016
Join the search for the next Putinversteher of the Week!
For the first time last week, we encouraged you to nominate your own candidate for...
The World This Week According to Russian State TV
We begin weekly analysis of the main talking points of Russian TV’s Sunday news review programs. The three flagship shows — Voskresnoye Vremya ,...
Fake: Motorola Fascist Killer Video
This week Russian and western media made wide use of a video of masked young men claiming they were responsible for the death of...
RT: NatWest ‘freezes Russian channel’s UK bank accounts’
By BBC
NatWest bank has frozen the accounts of Russia's state-run broadcaster RT, its editor-in-chief says.
Margarita Simonyan tweeted: "They've closed our accounts in Britain. All...
StopFakeNews #104 with Benjamin Cohen
The latest edition of StopFake News with Benjamin Cohen. Among the disinformation debunked this week: American snipers in the Donbas, International MH17 Investigation Team...
The Russian “Firehose of Falsehood” Propaganda Model
Why It Might Work and Options to Counter It
by Christopher Paul, Miriam Matthews, for RAND
Since its 2008 incursion into Georgia (if not before), there...
Fake: Ukraine Fears Mass Exodus if Russian Visas are Introduced
Russia’s national news agency RIA Novosti claimed this week that Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry fears a mass exodus of its citizenry if visas with Russia...
Fake: University Student Expelled for Asking President Poroshenko “Uncomfortable Question”
Russian and Ukrainian media are disseminating a story claiming that a student who asked Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko if he would send his children...
Fake: Polls Show Majority of Ukrainians Don’t Want To Vote
Manipulating the results of polls is a favorite tool in the Russian disinformation toolkit. The latest example of this tried and true method is...