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We’ve got bad news!
All the infographics referred is available in original publication Information spreads via Internet not only by means of…
Internet troll confession: “We provoke a new level of aggression in our victims”
Texty was not able to verify from other sources everything that the “troll” said, but given the importance…
Awareness and attitude toward the problem of disinformation and propaganda in mass media
The research goal of the StopFake project was to find out the level of awareness and attitude of Ukrainian citizens regarding the problems of disinformation, informational manipulations and propaganda in the media.
Computational propaganda in Ukraine: caught between external threats and internal challenges
Social media being used by governments to spread fake news and manipulate public opinion, finds first comparative study of automated political propaganda worldwide.
How Russian media fuels hostility towards the West
The ruling elite of the Russian Federation and other key figures in politics and business were mostly born and shaped during Soviet times and thus have a tendency to agree with Vladimir Putin’s statement: “The collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.” Despite the downfall of the USSR, a Soviet tradition of looking for internal and external enemies lingers on.
Image of European countries on Russian TV
Non-governmental organization, Ukraine Crisis Media Center (UCMC), has been working to address the issue of Russian disinformation since the beginning of the Russian military aggression against Ukraine in 2014. Based on vast practical experience of revealing the cases of deliberate disinformation, the UCMC team has learned that even when obvious fakes are exposed to facts, they usually do not change the judgment of the core of the targeted audience.
Volunteers gathered evidence of 32 Russian military units taking part in the invasion of Crimea
InformNapalm volunteer intelligence community has gathered and structured evidence of the participation of servicemen from 32 military units…
Information warfare in the Internet. Exposing and countering pro-Kremlin disinformation in the CEE countries
Teaching children to distinguish fake news from the real ones as early as at primary school; naming &…
Fakes debunked by the StopFake project between 2014—2017: narratives and sources
This analytical report includes the results of research conducted by StopFake analysts based on archived data of debunked messages from Russian media.
Russian Aggression: extensive database of evidence
More than 2630 Russian servicemen from 101 units of the Russian army and other law enforcement and security of Russia, as well as 50 types of Russian weapons and equipment, which could not have been captured in combat, and were secretly brought to Donbas.