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November 18, 2019

Who's Afraid of the Brown Stink Bug?

Measles and swine flu epidemics, bioweapons, lethal experiments on people… - Georgian Lugar Lab has been subject to a massive disinformation campaign. What makes pro-Kremlin actors so eager to use one laboratory to spread so many infectious messages?

News and Analysis

January 25, 2018

Years of European horror

Disinformation video about Europe legalising incest has spread on social media for years. But if effectively debunked, attempts to use social media to disinform the public can have a much shorter life cycle.

News and Analysis

June 30, 2021

Kremlin Not Getting the Joke

The pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets occasionally use video games as “photographic evidence” and satire as “facts”. Russian state media and Russian officials have frequently taken a website, intended for satire, at face value.

Top Story

June 14, 2019

How Serbian Sputnik Infiltrated a Disinformation Hub in Bosnia And Herzegovina

Although most of the sources of political disinformation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) are local media, a large disinformation hub is formed by an alarmingly high number of media from neighbouring countries, potentially used by foreign political actors.

Disinformation Review

April 11, 2024

Greetings from Russia: a trip from Kyiv to Korea

From Kyiv’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations and Armenia’s geopolitical partnerships to North Korea: several ‘fronts’ are active in the pro-Kremlin disinfo ecosystem.

News and Analysis

March 08, 2018

Russia as a “Victim of Western Aggression”

Repetition is one of the most powerful and frequent techniques used by the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign. And framing Russia as a victim of Western aggression and “Russophobia” is one of the key disinforming narratives. This week, we saw both neatly combined.

News and Analysis

January 19, 2023

Shifting the focus, engineering paranoia, manufacturing fake threats

Russian State media claim looming Western invasion of Russia, Ukrainian plots to use nuclear bombs, and threats to the Orthodox faith in Ukraine. All to distract from bloody battles, atrocities, civilian deaths and the Dnipro bombing.

Disinformation Review

August 25, 2022

The Kremlin Finds a New Rallying Cry for its War Against Ukraine

Pro-Kremlin disinformation channels are using the assassination of Darya Dugina to raise the stakes of the invasion in the eyes of domestic audiences. The goal: to paint a picture where Russia is facing a war of annihilation, and the only way to survive is to destroy Ukraine.

News and Analysis

November 20, 2017

This week on Russian TV: Theresa May targeted after stating that Russia weaponises information

On November 13, British Prime Minister Theresa May said that Russia seeks “to weaponise information” and uses its state-run media outlets to “plant fake stories and Photoshopped images in an attempt to sow discord in the West.”

News and Analysis

December 09, 2021

Behind the smokescreen of Kremlin lies lurk the Russian military deployments

Spread of pro-Kremlin disinformation tries to conceal the true breadth and intentions behind Russia’s military build-up near Ukraine. Age-old disinformation narratives have been dusted off and put yet again to use to give a justification for the Russian military deployments, and possibly more.