March 17, 2022
High on Its Own Supply
Kremlin’s disinformation about bombarding hospitals and maternity wards goes hand in hand with stifling independent media and access to information in Russia.
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March 17, 2022
Defectors, Defiance and Disinformation
Several journalists have publicly declared they are not taking part in the Kremlin’s disinformation machine and left their jobs.
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March 16, 2022
Disinformation at the border of war
On the morning of 24 February, people in Chisinau were woken up by the sound of explosions. Bombs were falling on Ukraine. Several hours later, numerous young men received a text message announcing general conscription in Moldova. That was the first “grenade” on the disinformation front in Moldova.
March 16, 2022
A Fake Referendum about the Rule of an Illegitimate President
Belarus recently held a referendum on constitutional changes. The result was, as expected, falsified and the turnout exaggerated.
March 15, 2022
“No, We Did Not Bomb the Hospital, and It Was a Nest of Nazis Anyway”
The shelling of Maternity Ward No. 3 in Mariupol is a war crime and took the life of innocent civilians, including children. Top Russian officials confirm the targeting of the facility, but claim it was a stronghold of “radicals”. They are lying.
March 12, 2022
Kremlin Evokes Satan in Support of the War
The Kremlin disinformation ecosystem is raising the stakes in its attempts to justify the attack on Ukraine. Now, the enemy is not merely “Nazis and drug addicts”; now the Kremlin is evoking an even more dramatic enemy: Satan himself.
March 11, 2022
The Chilling Background to Kremlin’s “No War” Trope
Russian authorities have forbidden media outlets to refer to the attack on Ukraine as a war. This is not only an attempt to spin something unpleasant in a more positive way; if there is no war, there can be no war crimes. But hard facts can’t be washed away that easy. The world is not that stupid.
March 10, 2022
Weapons of Mass Delusion
Disinformation concerning the alleged planning of nuclear attacks or the use of bioweapons dominate the narratives of pro-Kremlin outlets and Chinese state media.
March 09, 2022
“Our job helps fight the Russian aggression. So we keep going.” Interview with Ukrainian fact-checkers VoxCheck
VoxCheck is an independent non-profit fact-checking project in Ukraine. It continues to fight disinformation even as its work is interrupted by the howl of air raid sirens
March 08, 2022
Women at War
War is filthy, and it is brutal. The one going on in Ukraine right now is no exception. Its face might be unwomanly, but women are very much involved and get to face its repercussions and the lies that surround it.
