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By EUvsDisinfo For decades, television was considered the primary mouthpiece of propaganda. The digital age, however, has elevated a new and potentially more dangerous instrument of influence: video games. Under the guise of entertainment, they shape worldviews and political narratives, making propaganda subtle, scalable, and effective. Unlike passive media, video games offer players not only […]

Ukraine does not carry out drafting measures among ethnic Hungarians or other national minorities. Reports of «ethnic cleansing in Ukraine» are narratives of Russian propaganda. There is not a single clause in the Ukrainian law «On Mobilization Training and Mobilization» that would divide citizens on ethnic, religious or linguistic grounds. In addition, the ranks of […]

By EUvsDisinfo As Wikipedia approaches its 25th anniversary in 2026, its open editing model faces a growing challenge: coordinated edit wars. In these campaigns, Kremlin-aligned actors try to rewrite history, launder disinformation, and lock distorted narratives into one of the world’s most trusted reference platforms. Founded on the idea that volunteers could collaboratively build a […]

State security agencies are amplifying warnings to enemies of the state using compliant pro-Kremlin journalists. By Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, for CEPA The Kremlin-controlled TV channel Rossiya 1 aired a documentary under the dramatic title Predatelstvo (High Treason) in early February. The program’s structure was fairly simple — essentially a series of interviews with prisoners accused of “terrorist” attacks […]

The emergency situation in Ukraine’s power grid is a direct consequence of Russia’s barbaric policy of destroying Ukraine’s critical infrastructure. Ukraine is fully synchronized with the European power grid, so technological problems in a country’s system could affect the system of a neighboring state. Amid power outages in several Ukrainian regions and neighboring Moldova, Russian […]

The video is a fabrication designed to mimic the visual language of a mainstream news outlet. While Spain has experienced a series of railway accidents in recent months, none has been designated a terrorist attack by authorities. The misleading clip repurposes footage from a genuine tragedy — the collision of two high-speed trains in southern […]

Both the video and the data in it are fabricated. In fact, as of 2025, the level of trust of Europeans in the EU has reached record levels. Young people have traditionally been particularly supportive of EU membership. A video is being circulated online, mostly on pro-Russian sources, claiming that European youth are supposedly ready […]

The circulation of multiple fabricated videos carrying the branding of French and international media outlets points to a coordinated information operation targeting Ukrainian refugees in France. These clips present invented “news,” falsely attributing serious crimes to Ukrainians and citing data that does not exist, in an effort to portray refugees as a public threat and […]

By Iryna Subota, for EUvsDisinfo In December 2024, Telegram began restricting access to channels of Russian propaganda resources sanctioned in the EU. However, a study by the Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law revealed a wide range of tools used to bypass the ban. The persistence of Russian information manipulation and interference (FIMI) in the EU […]

Russians are quoting a Finnish politician, who isn’t well-known and regularly appears on the Russian propaganda channel RT. In fact, only 11% of Finnish citizens regret joining NATO. With dramatic headlines like “Finland calls NATO membership a terrible mistake,” a quote from Armando Mema, a member of the Finnish Freedom Alliance party, is being circulated […]

In fact, the funds under the AgoraEU program are intended to improve access to reliable information, combat fake news and foreign influence. The initiative is criticized mainly because it is not yet known how the funding will be distributed. News is circulating online that the European Commission is allegedly planning to allocate an additional €7 […]

By EUvsDisinfo Russian attacks against energy facilities in winter were designed to freeze Ukraine into submission. Russian disinformation narratives justify these attacks and blame Ukraine’s leadership for them. Targeted attacks to break Ukraine’s resistance Russia has recently used a bitter cold snap in Ukraine to inflict terrible pain upon Ukrainian citizens by attacking the country’s energy infrastructure. […]

By Fiona Greenland, for EUvsDisinfo Russia’s foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) operations are diverse, entrenched, well-resourced, and coordinated. They are also linked globally to culture through ‘Cultural Heritage Exploitation’, or CHX. CHX is a multi-institutional endeavour with spatial, temporal, cognitive, and material aspects. In practice, it fuses pro-Russian historical propaganda to cultural objects, and it is […]

This is a clear case of manipulation: the personal opinion of a publicist and a non-binding parliamentary resolution are being presented as France’s official position, creating the misleading impression that the country is preparing to exit both the EU and NATO. Several Russian media outlets and Telegram channels have circulated reports citing unnamed “experts,” claiming […]