March 19, 2019
Figure of the week: 49
Programs produced in Russia make up about 49% of the prime-time content on Belarusian TV channels, research of the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) found.
Figure of the Week
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March 05, 2019
Figure of the Week: 138
Following the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in the UK, pro-Kremlin media went into overdrive and churned out an impressive amount of disinformation.
February 19, 2019
Figure of the Week: 2200
In the past few weeks, thousands of people have lost their jobs in US media. This is bad news for those of us who want to read reliable news at a time when we face a well-resourced, state-coordinated disinformation campaign from Russia.
January 29, 2019
Figure of the Week: 6
The claim came from a regular contributor to Sputnik and was published in a news outlet run by the St. Petersburg troll factory.
January 22, 2019
Figure of the Week: 364
Facebook announced that 364 pages and accounts were closed, due to "coordinated inauthentic behaviour". Most sites were managed by employees by the Russian State News Agency Sputnik.
January 15, 2019
Figure of the Week: 43
Initiatives to tackle influence campaigns on social media are flourishing, according to a new study.
December 27, 2018
2018 in Figures
It's been a busy year for the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign. This special edition of Figure of the Week reviews how Russian influence operations sought to divide societies in 2018 and how Western countries hit back.
December 18, 2018
Figure of the Week: 2013
New reports produced for the U.S. Senate shed light on Russia's sweeping efforts to manipulate Americans over the past five years. The reports offer the most comprehensive analysis so far of Russian online influence operations in the United States.
December 04, 2018
Figure of the Week: 12
It's been described as a "death factory" where the United States is secretly testing biological weapons to attack Russia. Meet Georgia's Lugar laboratory, a top target of pro-Kremlin disinformation.
November 27, 2018
Figure of the Week: 1
A tough new bill adopted by French lawmakers calls for a crackdown on the "manipulation of information" during election periods.
