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Narrative Failure: Russia and the West have a Storytelling Problem

Persuasion is most effective when there’s a compelling story, but after four and a half years of full-scale war, neither Moscow nor the West...

Vladimir Putin only has two options in Ukraine: Total victory or endless war

By Peter Dickinson, for UkraineAlert Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the United Nations last week and used the occasion to dismiss suggestions that minor territorial...

Moscow Cries Fraud Abroad While Fixing the Vote at Home

By EUvsDisinfo Moscow routinely portrays elections in democratic countries as fraudulent and controlled from abroad. Yet Russia’s own parliamentary election offers no genuine political choice:...

Manipulation: Die Zeit Says Ukraine May Have Staged a False-Flag Operation at Leipzig Airport

The Die Zeit article being cited contains no claim that Ukraine is responsible for launching drones at Leipzig Airport. The piece notes that German...

Welcome, Péter Magyar: Hungary’s new leader joins Zelensky as a target of disinformation in...

Grok's automatic translation in X expands the reach of disinformation Introduction and Key Findings This report compiles the results of monitoring conducted between April 1 and...

Manipulation: The Scale of Europe’s Wildfires Was Caused by EU Sanctions Against Russia

Russian propaganda outlets are circulating claims that the scale of the wildfires in France and Spain was caused by EU sanctions against Russia. Europe,...

Manipulation: Ukraine Is Defenseless Against Iranian Missiles Even With Patriots, Analysts Say

Defence Express analysts did not concede that Ukraine is helpless against Iranian missiles or that Patriots "won't help." The outlet noted only the difficulty...

Distance Won’t Protect You: Belarusian Transnational Repression in Canada

By Marcus Kolga, for DFRLab Property seizures, family interrogations, and digital surveillance show how Belarus punishes its diaspora on Canadian soil In August 2025, a Belarusian...

Russia’s Attacks on Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage: a Nail in the Coffin of FIMI

By EUvsDisinfo The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a sacred site that the Kremlin has for decades called its spiritual cradle and a main centre for Orthodoxy in...

Two coordinated networks, one domestic, one foreign, target the same Philippine Facebook pages

by Digital Forensic Research Lab A domestic network attacks Filipino activist pages to discredit them while a Chinese network exploits the same pages to attack the...