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The Kremlin’s upside-down world in 2024
The year 2024 will be busy. Continuing from our disinfo review of last week, we present a short New Year’s overview of the main features...
Jan 26, 2024


Groundhog Day of Evil
In Putin’s Russia, the calendar turns, but the story remains unchanged. A cycle of deception, oppression, moral decay, and futile...
Jan 18, 2024


Propaganda in Sport – Deceptive Neutrality: Russian Killer Athletes
On December 8, the International Olympic Committee decided to grant Russian and Belarusian athletes participation in the 2024 Olympic...
Jan 12, 2024


Bad Santa comes with deceitful gifts
The Kremlin’s master Putin is the bad Santa of disinformation. Every year, he returns to give a huge baskets of gifts we never wanted. In...
Dec 29, 2023


Wikipedia in Russian: How to Manipulate Information with Flexible Truths
Wikipedia is one of the top five most visited websites in the world as of November 2023. Every month, approximately 4 billion unique...
Dec 22, 2023


DIVIDE AND CONQUER: Russia’s information war against Ukrainian-Polish relations
Introduction One of the primary objectives of Russian propaganda and information influence in the Polish information space is to...
Dec 18, 2023


Countering disinformation in Africa: human rights need to come first
In this candid discussion with EUvsDisinfo, Marystella A. Simiyu addresses disinformation and information manipulation in Africa...
Dec 1, 2023


Shaping and manipulating the information space
In military jargon, officers sometimes talk about ‘shaping the battlefield’, referring to measures that set the conditions for...
Oct 11, 2023


Russian Propaganda in EU Social Media
The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content, and Technology published a report titled “The Digital...
Oct 6, 2023


One of these things is not like the others
Russian state-affiliated disinformation outlets try to ‘borrow’ credibility by impersonating legitimate media and government...
Sep 13, 2023


In Europe, Disinformation Is Winning: A Cautionary Tale for the U.S.
An activist holds a poster reading “Propaganda Kills” during a peaceful protest against the war in Ukraine by members of the local...
Jul 18, 2023


Why Putin should worry his propaganda machine broke down
The Kremlin’s disinformation industry was caught off guard by the Wagner uprising. That’s not great for the Russian president. (State...
Jul 5, 2023


Russia’s twisted hall of mirrors
It has been more than 15 months since Russia launched its 3-day “special military operation” against Ukraine. As Russia’s war of...
Jun 29, 2023


Crimes against children and teenagers as part of Russia's planned genocide of Ukrainians
Cover by IMI Russia accusing Ukraine of "festering Nazism" with no evidence to support these claims is no surprise to anyone. The...
Jun 23, 2023


Kremlin’s tide of disinformation can’t wash away the truth
The Kremlin reflexively turns to its favoured manipulation tactics of denial and aggressor/victim role reversal, but its propagandists...
Jun 21, 2023


How Russia's propaganda budget has surged since the Ukraine invasion
$1.9 billion - that's how much the Kremlin spent on its global disinformation operation in 2022! Debunk.org explains how the Kremlin...
Jun 19, 2023


“It collapsed on its own” – Five Russian media fakes about the destruction Kakhovka dam
Ukraine did not destroy its own hydroelectric power station, creating a man-made disaster on its territory. Since 2022, the Kakhovka...
Jun 9, 2023


Kremlin spent 1.9 billion USD on propaganda last year, the budget exceeded by a quarter
Since the media was compared to a weapon by Russian officials and propagandists on multiple occasions, the increased spending on the...
May 10, 2023


Sports out of the politics
Iryna Lishchynska, sports director of Run Ukraine, explains how Russia promotes propaganda narratives through sports and how...
May 4, 2023


A hopeless mix of misleading narratives and plain old fakes
If anything, the Kremlin’s propagandists sure are persistent. They have been trying to deflect blame for Russia’s unprovoked war of...
May 2, 2023
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