disinfo review

Dropping Rumour Bombs in Ukraine

This week, the pro-Kremlin media continues to build up disinformation on the Russian military build-up around Ukraine.

15/04/2021

Disinformation Build-Up: Pro-Kremlin Media Reinvigorate their Focus on Ukraine

Pro-Kremlin media spread disinformation to support the build-up of Russian troops and military equipment along Ukraine’s borders.

08/04/2021

The Perpetual 1 April of the Kremlin Disinfo

In the Pro-Kremlin disinformation universe, every day is April Fools’ Day. But the 1st of April is also a global exercise in source criticism: readers all over the world ask: “Can this really be true?”

01/04/2021

How to (Not) Become a Target of Disinformation

What is the common denominator of pro-Kremlin disinformation targets?

25/03/2021

Clinging to the Eternal Russia

Why the pro-Kremlin media adores the narrative of the “eternal Russia” and why this leads to more lies.

18/03/2021

The Culture of Resentment Revisited

Pro-Kremlin disinformation continues to target vaccines and lashes out at the European Medicines Agency.

11/03/2021

Making Mountains Without Molehills

This week gave an opportunity to follow an unfounded claim’s evolution from a coarse forgery in an anonymous letter to a parliamentary demand for a formal investigation.

04/03/2021

Who Is Afraid Of Russophobia?

Life is tough when the world is pitted against you, or you think it is. This week, the disinformation reflects this mood, radiated by the pro-Kremlin media.

25/02/2021

From the Kremlin Without Love

The Pro-Kremlin media shows no love to Europe, or Russians supporting imprisoned Alexei Navalny.

18/02/2021

Disinformation Review

The Disinformation Review is EUvsDisinfo’s weekly newsletter. Issued every Thursday, it summarises the main pro-Kremlin disinformation trends observed across the disinfo cases collected throughout the week, and includes our latest news and analysis. It is available in English, Russian, German, French, Italian and Spanish.

Since its launch in November 2015, the Review has tracked the evolution of pro-Kremlin disinformation across a collection of thousands of cases in 18 languages. These cases, together with their disproofs, are contained in our public database – the only searchable, open-source repository of its kind. All issues of the Disinfo Review are also chronologically archived on this page.

While the Review is written specifically for a public audience, it is an important resource for experts and policy makers as well. Over the years, it has been referenced and quoted by political leaders, ministries, think tanks, and journalists throughout Europe and beyond.

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What makes a pro-Kremlin disinformation case?

The EUvsDisinfo database is dedicated to identifying and exposing disinformation narratives originating in pro-Kremlin media across the EU and Eastern Partnership countries. As of 2019, our monitoring capabilities also expose disinformation spread in the Western Balkans and the EU’s Southern neighbourhood.

In identifying disinformation cases, we focus on messages that provide a partial, distorted, or false depiction of fact-based reality, in line with established pro-Kremlin narratives. We use two criteria to determine whether a disinformation message is included in the database: 1) the message is verifiably false or misleading, according to the publicly available factual evidence and 2) the message originates in a Kremlin-funded media outlet or other information source that has clear links to the Russian Federation. Due to an EEAS policy change in 2018, we no longer include European outlets in the database. Read more about EUvsDisinfo’s terminology here.