On the eve of the 170th anniversary of the founding of the largest American news agency Associates Press (AP), The Guardian published a lengthy article about the study of the German historian Gariet Scharnberg, dedicated to the work of this agency in Nazi Germany. As Scharnberg notes, AR was the only Western agency, whose offices remained ...
The government of the Russian Federation pays $ 1,4 billion annually to power a sophisticated propaganda system that portrays the Kremlin's distorted vision of world events in 30 languages. This was announced on Tuesday during a hearing in the US Senate by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State ...
Exclusive video footage shot by Russian war correspondents in Syria has become hits on the internet forums of nationalists in Russia. Military operation in Syria on video with music accompaniment? It may sound crazy, but Russian propaganda creates such videos, some of which are not much different ...
In the Kirov region, an administrative case was opened against Apple on the promotion of homosexuality. The reason was emoji depicting people of the same sex holding hands and same-sex couples with children. Local lawyer Yaroslav complained about emojis available in the iOS 8.3 operating system ...
An effective result in promoting Ukraine's image abroad with the current limited financial support can be achieved through a combination of efforts of the state and non-state sectors. This was discussed at a briefing on Friday following a meeting of the National Council of Reforms (NRR). In particular,…
For the first time in the history of the European Union, Lithuania interrupted the broadcast of a TV channel registered in Europe for three months. The RTR-Planeta TV channel, which is the international version of the Russian federal TV channel Rossiya 1, violated the Law on Public Information, the Lithuanian authorities decided. As stated by the State Commission of Lithuania...
Petersburg journalists have already managed several times, on condition of anonymity, to talk with former "trolls" - this is the name of the employees of special offices, where for a salary you have to engage in propaganda on the Internet. But for the first time, Radio Liberty was able to talk to the ex-“bot” who did not hide his ...
“Now that much of the information we receive comes through tech platforms like social media (as well as the information that news reporters use as raw material), our knowledge of the world has become vulnerable to hacking,” writes Bloomberg View columnist Leonid Bershidsky. -...
In response to the growing information pressure of Kremlin propaganda in the media, the Lithuanian national broadcasting company LRT is going to release new programs for the Russian-speaking population, and in the fall it is planned to launch a program that will expose the sources of propaganda and their principles of operation. According to the chairman ...