Examples of pro-Kremlin disinformation claims in the German language collected in the EUvsDisinfo database have been liked, shared and commented on social media more than 100 000 times
Media workers in high regard: budget expenditure earmarked for pro-Kremlin media increases yet again.
Russian and Belarusian state media rely on a growing number of bogus “international experts” to legitimize disinformation about the protests in Belarus
On social media, coronavirus-related content published by RT and Sputnik in French, German and Spanish languages can achieve higher average engagement per article than reputable media outlets, a recent study by the Oxford Internet Institute found.
The Stanford Internet Observatory analysed RT’s English-language coronavirus-related content and found that US was the subject of approximately 50% of clearly ”negative content“.
This week, EUvsDisinfo is celebrating its 200th Disinformation Review.
Almost one-fourth of Russians consider the COVID-19 pandemic a fiction.
494 coronavirus-related cases spreading disinformation and collected at EUvsDisinfo database received 1,152,270 likes, shares and comments on different social media platforms.
Harmful misinformation on the coronavirus was shared over 1.7 million times on Facebook and viewed an estimated 117 million times. This is the conclusion of a recent study published by the Avaaz activist network.
Coronavirus conspiracy theories are gaining traction with audiences: nearly three-in-ten Americans believe that COVID-19 was produced in a lab.
The EUvsDisinfo database has now surpassed 8000 disinformation cases, covering over 20 languages and averaging about 60 new cases per week.
Facebook and Instagram have removed a total of 203 accounts linked to Russia’s Internet Research Agency that were operating out of Ghana and Nigeria and targeted the United States.
Advertisements for some of the best-known global brands are funding some of the most notorious disinformation sites in Europe – to the tune of US$76 million per year.
A new analysis of 32 Russia-linked Facebook and Instagram accounts – which have since been removed – reveal how the Internet Research Agency’s tactics are evolving to circumvent the platforms’ nascent defences against manipulation.
At least eight media outlets in Norway have cited social media accounts controlled by the St. Petersburg "troll factory" in news stories.
The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was not only a non-aggression pact, but included cooperation on trade, economy and cultural exchange. Within the framework of the pact, hundreds of German refugees in the USSR, including communists and Jews, were handed over to the Gestapo by Soviet authorities.
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Load 15 more articlesCases in the EUvsDisinfo database focus on messages in the international information space that are identified as providing a partial, distorted, or false depiction of reality and spread key pro-Kremlin messages. This does not necessarily imply, however, that a given outlet is linked to the Kremlin or editorially pro-Kremlin, or that it has intentionally sought to disinform. EUvsDisinfo publications do not represent an official EU position, as the information and opinions expressed are based on media reporting and analysis of the East Stratcom Task Force.
