Staged April Fool’s Day Prank: Protesters Throw Manure at U.S. Embassy in Kyiv
On April 3, the Lifenews website published the headline: “Protesters Throw Manure at U.S. Embassy in Kyiv.” The story goes on to report that...
Russian Trolls’ Vast Library Of Insulting Images
Ever wonder where the droves of Russian-language Internet trolls get those satirical graphics they deploy to smear Western and Ukrainian leaders? Turns out there's...
Czech Echoes of the Kremlin’s Information War
2014 marked the end of the post-Cold War era as we knew it and revived the significance of geopolitics. The turmoil in Ukraine has...
Fake: American Tanks Found in Donbas
The website for Zvezda, the television channel of the Russian Defense Ministry, incorrectly reported a news item entitled “American Military Machinery Fires at the...
Russian Propaganda Exploits Western Weakness
It is becoming clear that certain authoritarian models of government are capable of matching and, in some respects, even exceeding the accomplishments of their democratic counterparts. Whether Russia, with...
Social Network Analysis Reveals Full Scale of Kremlin’s Twitter Bot Campaign
With the aid of open-source tools, Internet researcher Lawrence Alexander gathered and visualised data on nearly 20,500 pro-Kremlin Twitter accounts, revealing the massive scale...
Analytical Report on the Study «Counteraction to Russian Propaganda in the Conflict Region»
From February 26 to February 28, 2015, Kyiv International Institute of Sociology was conducting a survey «Counteraction to Russian Propaganda in the Conflict Region»...
Fake: Drunken Poroshenko Gives Soccer Ball to Legless Soldier
Several Russian media news sources, including Moskovskij Komsomolets and the Russian Defense Ministry’s channel Zvezda, mistakenly reported that the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko,...
Russia fighting information wars with borrowed weapons
“Life would be boring without rumors.”
So said Russian President Vladimir Putin, upon re-emerging from a mysterious ten-day disappearance, during which the internet exploded with...
Fake: Maidan Activist Looking for Work in Russia
Since March 27, some Russian and Ukrainian media have falsely reported that Maidan activist Olga Znachkova is now looking for work in Russia. As...