The Kremlin opens a firehose of falsehoods to flood the information space with manipulative narratives about the IL-76 plane crash in Belgorod, and seeks to alter the perception of farmer protests across Europe, spelling doomsday scenarios for the EU.
RUSSIAN ELECTION MEDDLING
AND PRO-KREMLIN DISINFORMATION
Russia’s seeds of subversion, carefully planted and cultivated for over half a decade, have successfully taken root and are now thriving independently.
Russia’s election meddling toolkit consists of ten key methods.
Plant disinformation and amplify it – pro-Kremlin social media exploitation in figures.
The trolls have gained six years of experience in election interference. Now they are 10 million tweets wiser.
Meddling in the 2017 French elections is a showcase of methods in the Kremlin playbook.
Nobody is immune to disinformation, but even though there are no vaccines, there are ways to become more aware and resilient.
Read how pro-Kremlin disinformation targeted Ukrainian elections 2019.
HAS IT HAPPENED BEFORE?
WHAT CAN YOU DO?