... and end with Russia. A growing number of states, in the pursuit of geopolitical ends, are leveraging digital tools and social media networks to spread narratives, distortions, and falsehoods to shape public perceptions and undermine trust in the truth
." We are used to research, dedicated to propaganda and fake news issues, that establishes only Russia is responsible for disinformation and fake news. This report, on the other hand, addresses propaganda and disinformation ...
The seminar was devoted to the analysis of challenges to the information spaces of Russia and the UK, the rules of conduct in the information space, and media codes in Russia and the UK, the development of social networks and their influence, the creation, spread and effects of fake news in both countries
On January 20, 2020, in Moscow, RIAC held the final workshop of the bilateral Russia-UK security project. The project started in 2016 and completed its fourth cycle on January 20, 2020. RIAC partner in the project is the ...
... the reputation of Carnegie Moscow Center.
Another example is the attempt of Western journalists to create blacklists of those media, which spread Kremlin propaganda and fake news to discredit democracy in the U.S. and in Europe. In late November, 2016, the Washington Post created
publicity for the so-called PropOrNot project
(Propaganda or Not). It came up with the blacklist of the Russian and Western publications, which disseminated fake news about America. Russia’s propaganda contributed to Trump’s presidential ...
... participants the European Solidarity Center’s program, could be a good example.
Fake news mantra
Today the fake news mantra is frequently used in politics as an argument to discredit critics or unfavorable coverage. Trump describes the mainstream American media as “failing”, the “
Enemy of the American people
”. Likewise, the Russian Foreign Ministry uses the fake news stigma to refute inconvenient narratives. For instance, in the early April, 2017 it
labeled Kommersant’s interview
with NATO’s Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller as fake news only because it used Gottemoeller’s quote in the headline....
In the middle between the U.S. and Russia. Interview with Eric Gujer, Editor-in-Chief at Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Eric Gujer, Editor-in-Chief at Neue Zürcher Zeitung
With media outlets being the center of attention recently, one has started to doubt what news nowadays is, what media to believe and ... ... and charge them for reading our articles. That is the economic discussion.
The second track of the discussion revolves around fake news. I do not think that fake news are so important for most media. Look, every news we publish has been vetted not by an ...
