... how Ukrainian soldiers crucified a child in front of its mother's eyes. Later, this story was proved to be fake, and there was neither a killed child, nor shocked mother. Still, the story went viral. It had reached a much broader audience on social mediathan it did on television.
The authors refer to that story as "an example of Kremlin-backed disinformation campaign." The authors of the report continued to state that "
in subsequent years, similar tactics would again be unleashed ...
... today’s geopolitical climate, tensions can escalate quickly. All it takes is disinformation or a lack of context to irritate international relations. There is more than enough blame to go around for the state of current affairs. That being said, the media is particularly responsible for where we are at. Their profound ability to frame and string together events in order to fit their narrative is remarkably effective. All media is narrative. There is always a good guy and a bad guy; to validate your ...
Media fail to recognize that the area between Ras Al Ain and Tal Abyad is almost entirely Arab and try to prove that a demographic change is taking place
US President Donald Trump took several decisions on the Syria conflict recently, which triggered ...
... White House’s decision to release the transcript of the telephone conversation the U.S. and Ukrainian presidents held in September 2019, albeit with the former’s consent, creates a precedent with far-reaching consequences. The opportunity was immediately seized on both sides of the Atlantic. Zelensky’s opponents in Ukraine happily demanded that the transcripts of his telephone conversations with Putin be made public too. Democrats on Capitol Hill are urging their enemy president to do the ...
... is the fuel that feeds the American political machine, and most Americans know that.
What is surprising is that Russia has for a long time been reluctant to venture into lobbying in the United States. Although it’s true that Russia has invested in media projects like RT and Sputnik, Russia itself has invested little to nothing into lobbying-related efforts that actually influence the American political landscape. Decorated
experts
like Andrey Sushentsov, have said that the reasons for this reluctance ...
... not meddle in our election is fake news,”
said Sen. Lindsey Graham
(R-S.C.) last summer. The U.S. political establishment has no doubts that Russia interfered in the American presidential campaign.
However, the Kremlin repeatedly
denies these accusations
, with many Russian pundits and media overtly ridiculing the American narrative about Moscow’s role in the U.S. elections. Usually, the arguments of the Russian side boil down to three bullet points: first, America is facing the national identity crisis (or a political one); second,...
... struggle. The parties are so taken with introducing various acts and bills and making other decisions intended to hurt the Russian leadership as much as possible that they are becoming oblivious to the interests of their own country, including its immediate security concerns.
In Kiev, the “Russian card” is nearly the principal trump card for national self-assertion, the key argument justifying the inability of the current Ukrainian leaders to make any kind of progress in resolving pressing socioeconomic ...
... to Withstand Fake News?
According to the
FARA semi-annual report
issued at the beginning of 2017, only few international media outlets fell under FARA act: China Daily (Note: there is no foreign agent label on the website of China Daily), NHK Cosmomedia and KBS Korean Broadcasting System.
[2]
China Daily has a circulation of over 200 thousand copies but at the same time doesn't have a comparable broadcast network. Thus, RT is the only foreign media outlet which has a pretty much developed broadcast network registered as a foreign agent.
Does FARA Registration Violate Freedom of Speech?...
... presidential race and contributed to the victory of American billionaire Donald Trump, nominated by the Republican Party. These accusations highlighted the scale of the fake-news problem in the post-truth world. But to understand this phenomenon, it is necessary ... ... far away, we must make him believe we are near,”
he wrote
.
Numerous conspiracy theories and forgeries also contained what media experts today describe as fake news.
The Donation of Constantine
, a doctored Roman imperial decree of the Middle Ages,...
... all of 2016, Russia’s own media was decidedly pro-Trump and anti-Clinton. Additionally, all throughout the campaign, up to and through Election Day, it is now quite clear that Russia’s propaganda machine of hundreds of websites and many thousands of social media accounts—some unwittingly duped, others complicit or even an army of paid agents—posted many thousands of anti-Clinton, pro-Trump, pro-Russian, and anti-American comments, posts, and stories. Sometimes they amplified true stories like ...