... of geopolitical ends, are leveraging digital tools and social media networks to spread narratives, distortions, and falsehoods to shape public perceptions and undermine trust in the truth
." We are used to research, dedicated to propaganda and fake news issues, that establishes only Russia is responsible for disinformation and fake news. This report, on the other hand, addresses propaganda and disinformation as a comprehensive problem.
In the introduction, the authors claim that disinformation is a problem that consists of two major ...
... the analysis of challenges to the information spaces of Russia and the UK, the rules of conduct in the information space, and media codes in Russia and the UK, the development of social networks and their influence, the creation, spread and effects of fake news in both countries.
The Russian side was represented at the workshop by journalists and correspondents of Russian and foreign media, representatives of academic institutions and training centers involved in media research, as well as RIAC experts.
RUSI experts and staff, as ...
... discredit democracy in the U.S. and in Europe. In late November, 2016, the Washington Post created
publicity for the so-called PropOrNot project
(Propaganda or Not). It came up with the blacklist of the Russian and Western publications, which disseminated fake news about America. Russia’s propaganda contributed to Trump’s presidential victory and democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s debacle, according to PropOrNot. The blacklist included not only those outlets, which are seen as the Kremlin’s mouthpieces in the West ...
... information influence in particular. This interest has increased dramatically over the past few years. The authors of the report cite extensively from Clint Watts’s Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News. Watts, a former FBI operative, described the recent changes to the Washington ecosystem in
a recent podcast interview
. According to him, prior to the 2016 presidential election, Washington’s main fad was cybersecurity, which had replaced ...
... partnership with the Government of Spain and the Ministry of Defense of the country. The seminar in 2018 focused on hybrid warfare, fake news, and post-truth issues.
The forum gathered a significant number of representatives of the armed forces of Spain, as ... ... Emiliano Garcia-Page, the President of the Junta of Communities of Castilla–La Mancha, made a speech at the opening session.
Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) was represented at the event by Nikolay Markotkin, RIAC Media and Government Relations ...
... news mantra
Today the fake news mantra is frequently used in politics as an argument to discredit critics or unfavorable coverage. Trump describes the mainstream American media as “failing”, the “
Enemy of the American people
”. Likewise, the Russian Foreign Ministry uses the fake news stigma to refute inconvenient narratives. For instance, in the early April, 2017 it
labeled Kommersant’s interview
with NATO’s Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller as fake news only because it used Gottemoeller’s quote in the headline....
... published by The Washington Post concerning contacts between a member of Donald Trump’s campaign headquarters and the RIAC
Today, The Washington Post published an
article
on contacts between a member of Donald Trump’s campaign headquarters and the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).
While writing the article, The Washington Post journalist contacted RIAC program director Ivan Timofeev. The WP’s editorial board received a detailed commentary on the subject. Unfortunately, a significant ...
... importance and influence of traditional media? Is it possible that the rise of "fake news" in social networks was one of the decisive factors that determined the outcome of the presidential elections in the US? Did the phenomenon of "fake news" have a negative impact on the Russia-US relations? What kinds of challenges for journalists and politicians poses the growing popularity of Facebook and other social networks as the main news resources? What measures can be taken to counter aggressive manipulation on the Internet?...
... based on the U.S. electoral college structure. However, months after Donald Trump was declared President of the United States, questions remain about the legitimacy of the U.S. elections. The central issues are the emergence and use of so-called ‘Fake News’ and the accusation that Russia, through espionage and online hacking operations, sought to influence the presidential elections to promote Donald Trump and denigrate the reputation of Hillary Clinton.
The issues thrown up in the wake of the U.S. presidential election have fundamentally ...
... we publish. So, I do not think that we can be taken hostage by fake news producers as Facebook can be.
But underlying to the fake news problem is the discussion about trust in the media. In Germany, for instance, large part of the population feels that ... ... of trust is the most important thing we have to address as media.
Pavel Sharikov:
Enemy.media: The Creation of Enemy Image in Russian-American Relations
It seems like the situation in Russian media is much alike to what you have said about Germany. People ...
