Disinformation Review

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Kremlin Propagandist Doubting the Religion of Denial

Iran's admission to shooting down Ukrainian International Airlines' flight 752 has created big problems for the pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets.

January 16, 2020

Disinformation Review: Twenty Years of Distorting the Media

The Russian word "obida" - resentment, holding a grudge - has become a core element of the current Kremlin culture since Putin became Russia's leader twenty years ago.

January 09, 2020

Disinformation Review: Circling the Earth

As the North American Aerospace Defense Command prepares for its traditional tracking of Santa's journey around the globe on December 24, it's also a suitable time to see how well the pro-Kremlin media covers the planet.

December 19, 2019

Disinformation Review: A State of Panic

One element that strikes anyone who is following pro-Kremlin media is an omnipresent state of fear, anxiety, panic, anguish… Everything is sinking, breaking down, crumbling to pieces. This week's cases of disinformation is a catalogue of Kremlin's horrors

December 12, 2019

Disinformation Review: Bears and Drugs and Climate Change

What do the Western "climate hoax" and the newest Russian doping scandal have in common? Russophobia, of course! And this week's bonus: the EUvsDisinfo database has surpassed 7000 cases!

December 05, 2019

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, and now German (as of October 2019).

Since its launch in November 2015, the Review has tracked the evolution of pro-Kremlin disinformation across a collection of more than 6,500 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.