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Disinformation Review

August 18, 2022

Playing with Nuclear Fire

Pro-Kremlin disinformation zealots set their sights on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, using the threat of a nuclear disaster to advance Russia’s political and military goals in Ukraine

News and Analysis

September 25, 2018

Figure of the Week: 20

Facebook's "War Room" will use specially designed software to spot and track unusual activity flowing across the social network during election periods in different countries.

News and Analysis

May 12, 2020

Think Before you Share

No one wants to be the person who contaminates their friends’ social media feeds with conspiracy theories or disinformation. Use this list to make sure you stay ahead of disinformation!

Top Story

February 17, 2020

Disinformation sharpened tensions between Serbia and Montenegro

The divisive situation caused by the opposing positions of the Government of Montenegro and the Serbian Orthodox Church on the newly adopted Law on Freedom of religion of Montenegro has been used by disinformation outlets in the region, resembling the practice already detected in Ukraine, Armenia and Georgia.

News and Analysis

May 03, 2023

A lesson from Russia’s information manipulation textbook: setting the scene for a large-scale missile attack

Russia uses information manipulation as an integral part of its war machine. Russia’s attack on the Bryansk region in March 2023 provides a good case study for exposing how the Kremlin marries information manipulation with kinetic tactics to achieve maximum impact.

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June 03, 2022

Reality Built on Lies: 100 Days of Russia’s War of Aggression in Ukraine

For the past 100 days, the Kremlin continuously used disinformation to move the goalposts and warp the reality, in an attempt to redefine "objectives" and "success" for Russia's unjustifiable war of aggression against Ukraine.

News and Analysis

June 04, 2021

The Dirty Side of Advertising: Forced Confessions from Belarus on YouTube

To convey a positive image of Belarus and promote a pro-government Telegram channel, the ‘Belarus - the country for life’ YouTube channel uses forced confessions of political prisoners as paid advertisements.

News and Analysis

May 31, 2018

Retracing the steps of a disinformation campaign

By carefully tracking back the movement of the BUK missile that was used to shoot down flight MH17, the international investigation could finally show that it was a Russian BUK. This week, we retrace the tracks of the disinformation circulating concerning the downing of flight MH17.

News and Analysis

August 22, 2023

Kremlin narrative U-turn from demonizing Muslims to protectors of Islam

Pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets waste no time to use the burning of the Quran in Sweden and Denmark to sling accusations of religious intolerance. Portraying Russia as the protector of Islam diverges from previous disinformation attempts to vilify Muslims and push the narrative of ‘Islamisation’ of Europe.

News and Analysis

October 21, 2020

Repeating a Lie Does Not Make it True

Regurgitation is the editorial policy of pro-Kremlin media. Old claims are re-chewed, spewed up and repeated. The ever-handy idea of "false flag operations" can be used and reused infintely. But repeating lies does not make them true.