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  • Disinformation actors blame the West for rising inflation and push claims of 'Russophobia'

    For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Estonian media For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Latvian media i) biolabs and other Western experiments in Ukraine; ii) Zelensky being a drug addict iii) Western 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

  • Advertisements of more than 300 brands detected on portals spreading disinformation

    highlights the scale of the problem, where different companies and brands indirectly financially support misinformation Ldiena.lt “In 2015, political and social organisations and movements calling themselves the "non-systemic Social networks, Youtube, etc. have also been a major focus in the dissemination of this information For almost €3,000, 250 advertisements on politics, various social issues and elections were published media posts.

  • Over 1330 Facebook groups and pages spreading disinformation identified in the Balkan region

    Groups and pages on social media have been continuously spreading and amplifying misleading content on Social media over the last two decades has irreversibly influenced mainstream media, and, without much The lack of regulation on social media created a perfect ground for the production and very swift spread It is estimated that there are from 300,000 up to nearly 550,000 social media users in Montenegro, but The (almost absolute) lack of regulation on social media created a perfect environment for producing

  • BelNPP related disinformation asserts a 30% price jump for electricity in the Baltics

    Lithuania's strict position towards the Belarusian NPP is systematically presented in the Kremlin-supported media According to the research data, the biggest wave of disinformation was recorded on May 12, when a technical In the Kremlin-related media, the exercise was treated as an attempt by the Lithuanian government to Another increase of disinformation about Lithuanian position on the BelNPP coincided with Facebook post However, the pro-Kremlin media interpreted this as a yet another attempt by Lithuania to interfere in

  • ‘Non-existent Russian threat’ and suppression of free speech dominate the disinformation landscape

    potentially harmful content, identifying 1,396 articles with false and misleading content from 119 media received the largest number of social reactions in January 2021 within the false and misleading content According to a recent research by a Polish social media expert, over the last few months Konfederacja ’s social media channels have become increasingly popular via publishing materials sceptical of the COVID being developed by pharmaceutical companies, which seems to be a part of their strive towards greater social

  • By spreading disinformation, Minsk shifts the blame for increased migrant flow towards the West

    "Quite expectedly, the biggest share of disinformation was spread through aforementioned media outlets According to Ms Venclauskienė, this may indicate that pro-Kremlin media has shifted its strategy, and This was confirmed by the parents, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Social Security and same news stories were simply repeated in a wide network of in Arabic news websites - similarly to social media.

  • COVID-19 related disinformation becomes a tool to promote anti-Baltic narratives

    The highest peak of COVID-19 mentions was recorded on October 21, 2020: pro-Kremlin media picked up a For several months, the country has been intensively made a target of Russia-funded media for carrying As the second wave of pandemic has hit the country, the pro-Kremlin media kept up the claims about the The pro-Kremlin media presented this comment as the stance of the whole country and an effort of Latvia There is only misinformation, lies and panic raised by the media - in other words, “infodemic”, whilst

  • Rabbit Holes and Echo Chambers: Experimenting with YouTube

    and popular social media. Introduction: How social media works First, keep in mind that almost all social media operate based on It also does not encourage diversity: In fact, many social media are known to generate “echo chambers Some social media do this deliberately; others developed similar practices organically, by accident; or misinformation about vaccines and COVID-19 had been removed, but many were still online as late as

  • Disinformation actors use EU sanctions on transit of goods to Kaliningrad to spread falsehoods

    For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Estonian media Some person with dual nationality, who incites murder and war crimes on social media, makes collections 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

  • Coining lies. Kremlin spends 1.5 Billion per year to spread disinformation and propaganda

    It is now a wholly state-controlled multilingual network of television stations, websites, and social programs, produces online stories and radio programs related to primarily military, but also political and social again” and in doing so, he has imposed a system of political repression in which he holds political, social Komarova, The legality of the governmental control of Russian media and its effect on media business, Volchek, ‘Your Turn To Lie’: Former Russian State TV Cameraman Describes ‘The Business Of Misinforming

  • Waging the ‘vaccine war’: attempts to prove the superiority of Sputnik V by using disinformation

    by global governments to curb the effects of the pandemic, with suggestions made by Kremlin related media Examples of the stories that followed: Pro-Kremlin media cited Anatoliy Shariy, a controversial Ukrainian Kremlin related media (e.g., Izvestya, 15/01/2021) also reported that the official Twitter account of Case 2 Throughout the month of January, Ukraine has been consistently targeted by the pro-Kremlin media Meanwhile, Lithuanian fringe media mostly commented on the news of physicians infected by COVID-19 after

  • Refugees, sanctions, and military aid became targets of Kremlin disinformation about war in Ukraine

    and Social Media. ESTONIA Overview: Over the reporting period, Estonian-language pro-Kremlin social media segment shared For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Estonian media LATVIA Overview: Latvian-language pro-Kremlin social media segment produced only a few stories related LITHUANIA Overview: Lithuanian-language pro-Kremlin social media segment produced only a handful of stories

  • Polish-Belarusian war of memory – topic of Cursed Soldiers in disinformation against Poland

    Disinformation based on controversial, problematic elements of history is particularly difficult to assess As a result, 71 disinformation articles in Russian language were found, which broadly used the topic The highest increase of disinformation directly related to Poland was identified during the period of The most prevailing three pro-Kremlin media outlets were rubaltic.ru, ria.ru and news-front.info – which Truly Media - collaboration platform developed to support primarily journalists in the verification

  • False claims about COVID-19 contribute to growing popularity of disinformation actors

    The issue of problematic information about Covid-19 in the Western Balkans online media remains highly mainstream Serbian source srbijadanas.com, was often identified as problematic, but was mostly labelled as misinformation Overall, 146 pieces were marked as misinformation (unintentional spreading of false information) and 124 as disinformation (false information placed with an underlaying intention to disinform). However, most of the problematic information detected on Facebook was marked as misinformation, because

  • Kremlin tries to rewrite history over Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

    Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on August 23, the Debunk EU researchers examined how it was covered in pro-Kremlin media “Today, more than three decades after the collapse of the USSR, the pro-Kremlin media is systematically occupation of the Baltic States reaffirm that this issue is of great concern to the Kremlin-friendly media In general, Poland has recently become a target of disinformation spread by the Kremlin in order to negatively Kremlin-friendly media articles cite the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact as one of the major achievements

  • February 2021 presents a 98% disinformation increase and asserts that Latvia violates human rights

    Kremlin related media continues to distort Latvia's image in February 2021 with increased magnitude and media channels supported by Russia joined the race to repeatedly report on Latvia as a country violating as misinformation related to Latvia. The National Electronic Mass Media Council excluded 16 of Russia's TV programs from transmitting The cases presented on a domestic policy level which concerned Russian media in Latvia, portrayed the

  • “World saviours”: Russia leads the fight against COVID-19, Belarus provides Sputnik V to neighbors

    Almost 90% of misinformation (122 hits) within the period of analysis was found in Facebook groups and posted on Facebook pages and groups , representing a share of 86.4% within the relevant coverage on this social media platform and evidencing a high rate of conscious efforts to spread deceptive claims. of articles and by DebunkReach® highlight the rhetoric, which was pursued by major Kremlin-aligned media which was circulated not only to evidence alleged inefficiency of COVID-19 vaccines, but, especially on social

  • Debunker: 'Ukraine is preparing a dirty bomb'

    Disinformation actors assert that these shells are highly radioactive and will have a severe health and Russia has devoted intense media attention to these shells with exposés on the ‘shipments of poisonous Pro-Kremlin media coverage creates hysteria over the potential escalation of the war through the use In its most extreme form, the disinformation narrative claims that in the face of defeat, the West will Conflating these substances is a form of deception and scaremongering which Russian state media have

  • Disinformation actors focus on topics ranging from the events of the Russia-Ukraine war to refugees

    For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Estonian media 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 author of the video, Artūras Orlauskas, is a Lithuanian comedian, actor, former member of the Lithuanian Social He is currently active in social media disinformation, including a popular YouTube channel (47.1K subscribers

  • One plane and a lot of noise. Pro-Kremlin disinformation about forced landing in Minsk

    Numbers prove that topic was important for both audience and hostile media outlets. The day after the event, pro-Kremlin media outlets copied false statements of Belarusian authorities Despite the short delay of the pro-Kremlin media reaction on this event, Russian state funded media sources The analysis showed a great diversification of Russian language media sources spreading disinformation Truly Media - collaboration platform developed to support primarily journalists in the verification of

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