May 16, 2018
Who is Darth Putin?
Parody accounts on social media provide entertaining insight into how the disinformation machinery works.
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November 04, 2019
Propaganda Under Pressure
Pervy Kanal TV (Channel One Russia) is in serious financial trouble. Will the network stop spreading disinformation in an attempt to regain the trust it has lost among Russian audiences?
July 28, 2021
Modus Trollerandi
In a series of articles, we will demonstrate a few of the cheap tricks of the Rhetoric of Disinformation. Part 1: The Straw Man.
April 19, 2018
When nothing is true and everything is possible
Lately we have seen that two campaigns, targeting separated events, started to merge into one another within the pro-Kremlin disinformation space. For an untrained eye, that might seem surprising. But when nothing is true, everything is possible.
September 25, 2018
Figure of the Week: 20
Amid growing international consensus that Moscow was behind the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Russian audiences are being bombarded with different, often conflicting theories about the case.
June 10, 2020
Vote or Gays will Take Your Children. 2020 edition
Pro-Kremlin propaganda and homophobia go hand in hand ahead of the vote on constitutional amendments in Russia.
November 02, 2017
Seven things you should know about pro-Kremlin disinformation
It looks like any other news story, but it's not. The message of pro-Kremlin disinformation is: Be afraid! You face a massive threat.
August 27, 2020
Freedom as an Imperialist Scheme
The pro-Kremlin media is consumed by the fear of freethinking and independent people, so it is busy reducing them to unwitting pawns played by powerful puppet-masters. Blunt force and lies can subdue the protests, but it can never prevail.
February 21, 2017
Useful experts in Russian media
Russian state-owned media, such as Russia Today (RT), Sputnik and Russian national TV position themselves as reliable alternatives to what they label “main stream media”. The use of international commentators and experts by these Russian media does not necessarily reflect the depths of their expertise, rather whether their positioning is…
September 16, 2021
From Hybrid War to Buying Weapons, Belarus is Under External Threat
This week the disinformation narratives published by the pro-Kremlin media targeted mostly Belarus.