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During the Cold War, the Soviet Union used propaganda and disinformation as "active measures...against the populations of Western nations".[11]: 51 During the administration of Boris Yeltsin, the first President of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, "disinformation" was discussed in the Russian media and by Russian politicians in relation to the disinformation of the Soviet era ...
Doppelganger is the name given for a Russian disinformation campaign established in 2022 by Russian IT firm Social Design Agency (SDA). [1] It targets Ukraine, Germany, France and the United States, [2] with the aim of undermining support for Ukraine in Russia's invasion of the country.
How Disinformation Can Be Spread, explanation by U.S. Defense Department (2001) The United States Intelligence Community appropriated use of the term disinformation in the 1950s from the Russian dezinformatsiya, and began to use similar strategies [61] [62] during the Cold War and in conflict with other nations. [17]
However, this may be the first case of a disinformation false-flag operation, [163] as the original, supposedly "Ukraine-produced" disinformation was never disseminated by anyone, and was in fact preventive disinformation created specifically to be debunked and cause confusion and mitigate the impact on the Russian public of real footage of ...
The following is a list of websites, separated by owner or disinformation campaign, that have both been considered by journalists and researchers as distributing false news - or otherwise participating in disinformation - and have been designated by journalists and researchers as likely being linked to political actors based in Russia.
[1] [8] [9] [10] In June 2019, a group of 12 editors introducing coordinated pro-government and anti-opposition bias was blocked on the Russian-language Wikipedia. [11] During the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Kremlin trolls were still active on many social platforms and were spreading disinformation related to the war events. [12]
The Russian fake news laws are a group [1] [2] of federal laws prohibiting the dissemination of information considered "unreliable" by Russian authorities, establishing the punishment for such dissemination, and allowing the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) to extrajudicially block access to online media publishing such ...
The building of TASS, a Russian state-owned news agency accused of propaganda against Ukraine. The Russian information war against Ukraine was articulated by the Russian government as part of the Gerasimov doctrine. [1] [2] [3] They believed that Western governments were instigating color revolutions in former Soviet states which posed a threat ...