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  • Lithuanian fight against BelNPP leads to a collapse of energy sector, Kremlin media declares

    These were the main messages spread by Kremlin affiliated media in September. Litgrid via the Lithuanian-Belarusian connections received a lot of attention in the Kremlin funded media However, in the pro-Kremlin media the message about these plans was conveyed as if everything had already

  • Who rewrites history? The portrayal of the Legionnaire Day in pro-Kremlin media

    Narratives related to those events are often used in Kremlin related media to undermine the image of Because the 16th of March each year is the unofficial day of Latvian Legionnaires, pro-Kremlin media The foundation was quoted in Kremlin related media, claiming that the foundation investigated the historical present the “evidence” before it collaborates with respective professionals in Latvia, pro-Kremlin media Moreover, in some articles, these historical events and their interpretation in pro-Kremlin media led

  • Debunker: The 'Ukraine Nazi' disinformation narrative

    so-called ‘special military operation,’ the 'Nazi' narrative has been increasingly pushed by Russian state media when he called for the 'denazification' of Ukraine, branding the term “propaganda.”[7] Although this disinformation Such claims have been unequivocally debunked by independent Russian media[13], among others. theins.ru/antifake/248590 [14] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61332283 Debunker is a series of disinformation-busting

  • 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 Disinformation constituted 85.20%, while misinformation – 14.80% of the articles published and distributed by Kremlin-funded (or affiliated) media outlets and social media accounts. coincided with a message by the deputy from Ukrainian party ‘Servant of the People’ Andriy Gerus on various social These insights are also attested by the fact that media channels directly funded by the Kremlin were

  • Kremlin media on the ban of Victory Day: the Baltic States are mental degenerates

    This year Russan language media focused on former Soviet republics dismantling monuments of WWII, banning

  • 2020 has ended with allegations of the Baltics meddling in Belarus and suppressing Russian media

    violations of freedom of speech, and discriminatory initiatives against Russian and Russian-language media 2020, Debunk EU detected 36,327 articles related to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, posted by hostile media articles with potentially harmful content. 2,210 articles with false and misleading content from 80 media The news was twisted by the pro-Kremlin media as a plan to close the access to the Gulf of Finland to sputniknews.ru topped the list of false/misleading coverage providers in the three countries in terms of social

  • Disinformers take an advantage of COVID-19 crisis

    analyst at Debunk notes that the lockdown and online shift of public life have significantly activated misinformation authorities, both local and international, to the potential spread of this new coronavirus and the social Topics and narratives differed among media channels. Analysts of Debunk emphasize that not all coronavirus-related Facebook groups spread misinformation – fails to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic”, “NATO does not care about Lithuania” were the most common misinformation

  • Kremlin media: Lithuania is planning a terrorist act at the Kaliningrad border on May 9th

    However, in Kremlin media, it has become a pretext to accuse the Baltic countries of neo-Nazism, "Russophobia This year, there is noticeably less information about Victory Day in Kremlin-friendly media than in previous about Lithuania in the context of Victory Day (May 9th) were published in media favorable to the Kremlin According to pro-Kremlin media, the Baltics were the first former USSR members to almost destroy Soviet Actions taken by Latvia were met with great pain in the Kremlin media - the removal of the Pushkin monument

  • Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan used to discredit NATO in pro-Russian media

    couple of months earlier, events that unraveled during August and September were used in the pro-Russian media published in digital outlets based in Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina including social media posts as well. Nearly 20 percent of the analyzed content was labeled as misinformation. to the characteristics of the local media market.

  • Kremlin media asserts that Poland betrayed Lithuania and plans to build a new NPP in Kaliningrad

    down once again – however, instead of analysing possible reasons behind this incident, pro-Kremlin media In this context, disinformation sub-narratives which are already popular in the pro-Kremlin media were The pro-Kremlin media is trying to create an impression that the actions taken by the Lithuanian government In this regard, disinformation constituted 79.05% while misinformation – 20.95% of the articles published and distributed by the Kremlin-funded (or affiliated) media outlets and social media accounts.

  • In the face of a looming energy crisis, Lithuania stabs Ukraine in the back, Kremlin media asserts

    The upturn could be attributed to the comment made by a Ukrainian MP Andriy Gerus which he posted on social media on October 20, showing alleged evidence of Lithuania deceiving Ukraine. pro-Kremlin media to discredit Lithuanian efforts against the BelNPP. Disinformation constituted 71.65% while misinformation – 28.35% of the articles published and distributed by the Kremlin-funded (or affiliated) media outlets and social media accounts.

  • "COVID-19 is a tool for control" and other disinformation narratives escalate distrust in vaccines

    Roughly 92% of misinformation (70 hits) within the period of analysis was found in Facebook groups and media platform were classified as disinformation, i.e., found to be conscious efforts to spread and the means to fight it (such as lockdown and vaccination programmes) simultaneously, as the volume of misinformation and on social platforms. At a time of pandemic, along with memes that have taken the central stage in the social media, anekdoty

  • Russia's hybrid warfare: state-sponsored news media narratives about the Kakhovka dam breach

    disseminated by Russian state-sponsored news media with the intent to mislead the public. This often involves Kremlin-issued propaganda, distributed to target rival powers and/or various media this study aims to answer the following question: what narratives have Russian state-sponsored news media Analysing collective identity in discourse: Social actors and contexts. Semen. : Hybrid Warfare Tactics, Fake Media News and Review of Evidence.

  • Disinformation Without Borders: How Belarusian Silovik Content Spreads Across X

    channel’s primary amplifier on X, our new research reveals a broader network of accounts echoing its disinformation Our research in cooperation with Trollensics, a software for tracking disinformation and hybrid warfare campaigns on social media platforms, identified five inauthentic accounts responsible for nearly all The findings suggest a structured effort to extend the reach of Belarusian state-linked disinformation forcers” (those who inflate the number of “readers” on Kremlin bot accounts), and excluding official media

  • 40 percent of content published about the census in Montenegro was misleading

    Half of the media content analyzed shared negative sentiment about the intention to hold the census during A total of 210 media pieces, or nearly 40 percent of the content, was labeled as misleading. More than half of it was identified as disinformation, while the rest of it were misinformative. , while a third came from the media based in Serbia. the topic was also noted- a third of disinformative content came from the media of the neighboring country

  • Pro-Kremlin disinformation targeting Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

    In Lithuania and the Russian-language segment of Baltic media, anti-sanctions messaging has been particularly media and Facebook, beyond broad claims that Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees drain resources that should Report collates insight drawn from the monitoring of narratives trending across pro-Kremlin sites and social media across eleven countries in Central and Eastern Europe, as they relate to Russia’s war in Ukraine media.

  • Use of Soviet Era Nostalgia in Russian media, marking 30 years since the fall of USSR

    Soviet era nostalgia is a social phenomenon that can be used as a means to spread disinformation, the Misleading information that seeks to positively portray social and economic situation and living conditions which was taken away by the EU: At the time of the Union, the Baltic was perceived as a showcase of socialism present times are purposefully painted in white-and-black by exaggerating the good living conditions, social , media outlet released a quarter of detected disinformation cases.

  • Disinformation actors seek to legitimize Russia’s sham referendums

    For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Estonian media war were detected in the Latvian language media environment. For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Latvian media For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Lithuanian media MOST (North Macedonia), Fakenews.pl (Poland), Slovak Security Policy Institute (Slovakia), Detector Media

  • COVID-19 disinformation asserts that ‘there will never be returning to the “old normal”’

    Quite often, there is only a fine line between disinformation and misinformation, as establishing the With social media tightening their rules against false and misleading information, some of those holding At the end of 2020, it ranked 5th among the leading social media platforms and apps in Poland, being the leading Polish social media service by number of users. is one of the misinformation stories spotted on the website: What was claimed: Wearing a face mask is

  • Poland's foreign policies and response to the pandemic became targets of disinformation

    In December 2020, Debunk EU experts spotted 406 articles with disinformation (97.5%) and 10 with misinformation dissemination of ‘problematic information’ related to vaccination and coronavirus was also witnessed within social media platform wykop.pl, where almost no other pro-Kremlin messages were spotted. and runs educational media literacy campaigns. Debunk EU was noticed by such media giants as “The Financial Times” and “Deutsche Welle”.

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