Figure of the week: 8$
According to a recent experiment, hiring someone to run a disinformation attack on a company would cost you $8 per social media post.
In an attempt to understand the business model of disinformation service…
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Figure of the Week: 1.3 Billion
The Russian federal budget draft for 2020 is in and it shows that state-owned media will receive 1.3 billion euros next year; a big jump from the current almost 1 billion.The single biggest beneficiary is the TV News…
Figure of the week: 1/3
Only 1 in 3 Russians say they trust the news programmes on the state-controlled TV channels Pervyi Kanal and Rossiya 1, a recent survey by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) shows.20 percent of Russians find that over the past few years,…
Russian diplomatic Twitter accounts rewrite history of World War II
Official Twitter accounts amplified the hashtag #TruthAboutWWII in an effort to justify the Soviet Union’s signing of the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
In recent years, Russia has used its official government Twitter accounts to…
Facebook takes down Ukrainian troll farm pages. Here is how they worked
On 16 September in the post “Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From Iraq and Ukraine” on Facebook Newsroom, Facebook’s Head of Cybersecurity Policy Nathaniel Gleicher wrote that the company took down multiple pages, groups, and…
US presents new effort to counter Kremlin influence
An intergovernmental coalition hosted a presentation Thursday about a new U.S. foreign aid initiative intended to help targeted European countries withstand Kremlin interference.
The effort, first announced in July, is aimed at…
Democratic resilience against russian meddling
A Comparative Review of Russian Interference in Democratic Elections and Lessons Learned for Securing Future Elections were published by the Center for American Progress.The report analyzes different countries’ approaches to prevent,…
One article, many ways to disinform: Breaking down a Kremlin propaganda piece
The recent purchase of an anti-tank missile system by Estonia resulted in illogical, threatening and ridiculing narratives by pro-Kremlin media.
The Estonian Defense Forces are caught in the crosshairs of the pro-Kremlin…
Figure of the week: 55%
Between May and July 2019, bots accounted for a staggering 55% of all Russian-language Twitter messages about the NATO presence in the Baltic States and Poland, a study by the NATO Stratcom Centre of Excellence reveals. This…
Facts about Crimea’s annexation now taboo in Russia
When the Russian version of Israeli author Yuval Noah Harari’s book “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” was published in Moscow earlier this summer, references to the invasion of Crimea and the disinformation campaign around it had to be…