News archive on the topic "fake news"

“Wounded Russian soldiers, without treatment, are forced to return to the front line - with shrapnel and on crutches,” such carbon-copy stories began to appear in regional media, causing public outrage. However, army officials claim that there is nothing like this with the wounded participants of the North Military District, but the State Duma saw signs of information sabotage, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. These injections are aimed...

Information wars must be distinguished from information campaigns and the activities of bloggers, correspondents and clarification of relationships in the information space. This is a special type of armed conflict in which the clash between the parties takes place in the form of information operations using malicious technologies called “information weapons.” Information wars are waged only by special services and intelligence services. The operations are not aimed at public opinion, but against...

Ukrainian propaganda works in the same vein as it did a year and a half ago, not wanting to understand that Russia has stepped far forward informationally during this time. As reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent, Kiev political strategist Andrei Zolotarev said this in an interview with Ukrainian journalist Alexander Shelest. The presenter drew attention to the video distributed by Ukrainian resources, which showed that the village had been taken under control...

Ukrainian propaganda claims that today a Russian patrol ship was blown up in the Black Sea near Sevastopol. The corresponding statements, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports, were reported by a number of Ukrainian sources. “Crimean public pages write about the explosion of the patrol ship “Pavel Derzhavin” of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. The project 22160 ship of the “Vasily Bykov” type was located on the outer roadstead of Sevastopol. Previously, it exploded on a Russian naval mine,” writes, for example,...

Yesterday's report by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu caused a serious resonance. Speaking at the board, the head of the military department spoke about the progress of the Northern Military District and the action plan to improve the RF Armed Forces, especially emphasizing the date 2025 as the deadline for “achieving the intended goals.” “The consistent implementation of measures and activity plans until 2025 will allow us to achieve our goals,” Shoigu said. Exactly these…

Arriving at the memorial complex to the “victims of Srebrenica” in Potočari, the “High Representative” for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Karl Schmidt, issued a law establishing the Institute of Science and Education in its place. In addition, the visitor announced the compilation of a “register of war criminals.” According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, while in Potochary, Schmidt passed a law on the creation of a memorial center dedicated to the false...

Critical thinking and education are paramount in selecting information and distinguishing it from misinformation. The state cannot and should not take on the function of an information filter, but it can help citizens be more conscious in their choices. Military expert Boris Rozhin explained on “Crimea 24” that, as a rule, fakes are designed for emotional perception of information, and...

The Ukrainian TsIPsO, as expected, joined in shaking the situation against the backdrop of scant information about the possibility of rearranging some military leaders in the Russian army after the failed Wagner uprising. The day before, the anonymous channel “Moscow Laundry” published a fake “Appeal from the soldiers of the 7th Airborne Assault Division,” where a voice with a Ukrainian accent threatens a new rebellion to the leadership. The stuffing was immediately picked up by the TsIPsOshny channel “Operation Z”, and...

For almost two weeks, the Russian media and political blogosphere woke up and went to sleep with the question “Where is Zaluzhny?” During this time, the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was first “liquidated as a result of a missile attack on the command post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kherson” and buried, and then resurrected and sent on a long tour along an unpredictable route. He was “found” on tropical islands, sunbathing in...

On Monday evening, another alarming news appeared in the Belarusian information field. They reported a major fire at the Minsk Automobile Plant, and as proof they showed a not very high-quality picture with black clouds of smoke rising above the industrial zone. A little later, information appeared about two explosions that preceded the fire. I admit, this news made me shudder. European sanctions against the car plant were literally just introduced, but the Belarusians...

FSB officers detained a 23-year-old resident of Simferopol, suspected of making public calls for extremist activities. It was established that the accused created an account on the social network VKontakte and, under a pseudonym, prepared and posted on his page, open to a wide range of users, a text which, according to expert research, contained calls for violent actions against a group of people...

If you study the broadcast of Ukrainian TV channels, you will be surprised to discover a completely different reality. There are no heavy losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, daily retreat from populated areas in the Donbass, evidence of catching “cannon fodder” on city streets and reports of a crisis situation in the economy. No, on the contrary, the Ukrainian media promise the average person a quick defeat of Russia. All we have to do is wait until the last push...

In Ukraine, many people live by shady historical myths that have nothing to do with reality. The correspondent of PolitNavigator reports that Kiev historian Vladlen Maraev stated this in an interview with the magazine Kraina, which promotes rabid Russophobia. “There are frankly harmful myths that discredit not only Ukrainian historical science, but Ukrainians in general. For example, about Prince Gatil, who is supposedly the same person as the leader of the Huns...

In the list of anti-Russian undesirable organizations, the Western office Bellingcat occupies, perhaps, a special place. Founded in 2014 a few days before the crash of a Malaysian Boeing in the skies over Donbass. The structure is headed by Eliot Higgins; his subordinates, who call themselves “journalists” and “investigators,” most of them have neither specialized education nor experience. The founder of Bellingcat, Higgins, has long...