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February 17, 2021

Disinformation Goes Dada

This week saw the advent of an entirely new level of pro-Kremlin disinformation. Outlets are no longer bound to the traditional true/false paradigm, but have entered the realm of the absurd, the nonsens. How do we debunk Ayou Fyurrer na Huyutoo?

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February 11, 2021

Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine Attacked by Pro-Kremlin Media, Tested by Russian Diplomat

While pro-Kremlin media highlighted adverse outcomes of Western vaccines, they received support from the most improbable of people: a Russian diplomat.

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February 11, 2021

FLOODING THE MIND WITH HYPERBOLES

This week’s disinformation covers Navalny and relations between the West and Russia In most cases, a bombastic twist of the truth is never far away.

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February 10, 2021

National Whataboutism as a State Ideology

Whataboutism, a rhetorical device to deflect attention to an unpleasant issue, has evolved into an obsession, an art, an ideology, with the Kremlin.

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February 09, 2021

Manufactured Support Part 2: Using Western voices to spread disinformation

Previously, EUvsDisinfo described how pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets present sympathetic Western bloggers as mainstream journalists. In this post, we look at one such person who serves as a conduit for disinformation and conspiracy theories.

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February 08, 2021

Manufactured Support Part 1: The Kremlin’s Pocket Journos

Pro-Kremlin media outlets recycle the conspiratorial musings of sympathetic Western bloggers, falsely implying they are journalists who represent the mainstream views of the West.

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February 05, 2021

Deflection instead of Dialogue

The Kremlin has answered the European Union’s invitation to dialogue with a shameless attempt to deflect attention from its violations of Russia’s international obligations and own laws.

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February 05, 2021

FAKE IT UNTIL YOU BREAK IT

Our database shows deception, just as in nature and warfare, is an important tool to simulate and snuff out democracy with disinformation.

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February 04, 2021

“Navalny Cubs and Mommy’s Revolutionaries”

Alexei Navalny and the protests against his detention are at the centre of this week’s pro-Kremlin disinformation attempts. A very clear pattern is visible: belittle the protests and defame Navalny.

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February 03, 2021

The Kremlin Snubs Own Mouth Piece

“Bring Donbas home to Mother Russia” – The Kremlin is scrambling to distance itself from the RT editor-in-chief, calling for a Russian annexation of the occupied territories in Eastern Ukraine.