Alona ShestopalovaSep 183 min readHow Russia’s war against Ukraine went from TV screens to battlefieldsHostile rhetoric on Russian state-controlled TV tried to lay the foundation for widespread acceptance of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Benjamin StrickAug 277 min readUnmasking the fake MAGA accounts: stolen photos and digital liesFake accounts posing as young American women are spreading pro-Trump content online, using and manipulating images of European influencers.
CIRAug 64 min readHow disinformation is increasingly weaponised against women and minority groupsA new CIR report explores the ins and outs of identity-based disinformation, demonstrating its online and offline impact.
CIRJun 42 min readMapping the media landscape in Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territoriesCIR, together with Detector Media, reveal the network of actors behind the “media occupation” of Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories.
CIRMay 233 min readPro-Kremlin content targets South African social media users, pushing narratives around Ukrainian neo-Nazism Narratives were spread through official Kremlin-aligned and controlled channels, but also via Western-based social media influencers.
CIRMay 156 min readHow the Kremlin launders disinformation around the globe CIR explores the Russian influence operations that have attempted to spread disinformation, sow division and undermine democracy.