Facebook content moderation inconsistencies in the context of war in Ukraine
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, social activists, opinion leaders, journalists and ordinary civic-minded people have noticed a...
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Bot accounts spread the vision of the “Russian World” on social media platforms
An analysis of the Facebook page ‘Russkaya Litva’ (Russian Lithuania), showed an entire network of interconnected accounts has been...
Advertisements of more than 300 brands detected on portals spreading disinformation
Around the world, disinformation-spreading websites receive a large portion of their income by showing advertisements. The ads of...
Marina Ovsyannikova: Russian propagandist or opposition figure?
A screengrab of a woman appearing on the main news programme of Russian state-run Channel One with a poster saying "No war" had overflown...
Posts related to Kaliningrad sanctions targeted by social media bots and trolls
In a matter of weeks after sanctions were imposed on the transit of goods to Kaliningrad, Facebook posts published by Lithuanian...
Coining lies. Kremlin spends 1.5 Billion per year to spread disinformation and propaganda
In democratic countries, media is referred to as “the fourth estate”. However, this term does not apply to Russia, where the media is...
ZAPAD 2021 Communication Analysis: Messages,Narratives, (Dis)information
Communication analysis of ZAPAD 2021 indicated a presence of a number of complex information influence operations that were employed by...
Back to the (Soviet) basics: Ukrainian biolabs and dirty bombs in the Kremlin’s propaganda
The conspiracy theory about Ukrainian army developing bioweapons and aspiring to acquire a 'dirty bomb' became a culprit of the Kremlin...
Refugees, sanctions, and military aid became targets of Kremlin disinformation about war in Ukraine
In its alternative universe, where the invasion to Ukraine is not actually an act of war but a 'special military operation', the Kremlin...
'Think about that… twice': Tracking Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour on Lithuanian social media
In view of the increasingly discussed problem of Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour (CIB) and the widespread activity of bots on social...
Alternative universe: Kremlin TV prepped its Russian audience for a full-scale invasion to Ukraine
In the weeks leading up to the invasion to Ukraine, Kremlin propaganda apparatus went out its way to convince domestic audiences that...
Kremlin media on the ban of Victory Day: the Baltic States are mental degenerates
Celebration of May 9th, or the Victory Day, has been an important date in Soviet Union, but in the past decades it became a...
Yearly review: Kremlin media defends Belarusian NPP as its own offspring
Throughout the year of 2021, a widespread network of Kremlin-affiliated media was utilised to cover up multiple accidents and divert any...
Documentary “Truth as a Weapon”
The film was created by the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO, who came to Lithuania for the first time two years ago, and now, with the war...
In Kremlin’s spider web - social media analysis of the migrant crisis disinformation on Facebook
Comprehensive analysis of the networks of profiles, pages, and groups on social media has shown that Facebook pages and groups, which...
40 percent of content published about the census in Montenegro was misleading
The strongest opponents of intention to organize the census in Montenegro last year were representatives of the opposition (declaring...
Pro-Kremlin media uses 30th anniversary of USSR collapse to ignite nostalgia towards the Soviet era
During the months leading up to the 30th anniversary of the USSR dissolution, various Kremlin-related Russian media outlets tend to...
Supported by the Kremlin in the information war, Lukashenko started dropping hints of a nuclear one
After a major crackdown at the Belarusian border with Poland in the beginning of November, known disinformation sources were publishing...
Lukashenko uses Kremlin’s playbook to spread disinformation about the surge of migrants
Hybrid attack organized by the Belarusian state involves not only using migrants as a means of political pressure, but also aiming...
Lithuanian fight against BelNPP leads to a collapse of energy sector, Kremlin media declares
Actions taken by Lithuania to stop the flow of cheap electricity from the BelNPP in the Baltic region caused an increase of the price of...