Two elderly Ukrainian women nicely tamed a Russian journalist in the United States, who asked them provocative historical questions with a pro-Kremlin accent. So, they reminded the propagandist how Russia stole the local church from Ukraine, and also advised him to remember that the aggressor country did not exist at all when Kiev ...
The company Facebook plans to introduce a system of identification of users who buy ads on the social network, which is associated with the American elections, using postcards. Facebook will send the user a postcard with a unique code - the advertiser must enter it into Facebook to complete the ad purchase, Meduza writes. According to the executive director ...
The House of Representatives Standing Ad Hoc Committee on Intelligence released on Wednesday a small sample of the ads that the Russian "troll factory" posted on Facebook during the presidential campaign and after the US presidential election. The posts focused on issues such as immigration, religion and race, and some ...
A large group of senior figures from both major US political parties has created a new organization to monitor Russian political interference, its malicious actions in cyberspace, and the creation of fake news in order to counter them, writes Voice of America. Among the initiators of the new project, called “Alliance...
Spring 2017 is probably not the best time to be Russian in Washington, writes The Washington Post. Constant news reports about how far the Kremlin's hand went in the US election process last year is too much for many ...
The Russian authorities tried to interfere in the election campaign in the United States with the help of “stuffing” in the media sphere and fake news, CNN writes today. The channel’s journalists collected examples of how unverified facts and outright lies became “news No. 1” in the United States, and authoritative publications...
Brünnhilde Pomsel, now 105, was one of six secretaries who worked in the reception area next to Joseph Goebbels's office, where she said there was a carefree atmosphere. “In Goebbels’ office, I basically did nothing except type on...
Russia spends about a billion dollars annually on propaganda and information warfare. For example, in 2016, Russian media - both state and private - received almost 61 billion rubles ($904 million) from the budget; in 2015, this amount was...
“As I understand it, the editors did not understand that this video was used as a joke on a foreign website,” said channel representative Larisa Krymova in an interview with the BBC. “About the rally and Pokemon - both sad and funny: one of the editors after a week...
The Present Time project “Look both ways” refutes the assertion of Russian TV presenter Dmitry Kiselev that “we had fewer mistakes in the program than there are fingers on one hand.” Read also on ForumDaily: When the largest Russian TV channel manipulates information. Video Kiselev used to amuse...