Soft Power How a Little-Known Pro-Kremlin Analyst Became a Philippine Expert Overnight Rappler.com Investigation Has Helped Dismantle a Moscow Disinformation Network in Philippines feature Rappler .com and Coda Story
Information War From Fake News To Real Censorship President Trump turned “fake news” into a rhetorical cudgel. The world’s authoritarians have turned it into a crackdown on free speech. dispatch Eduard Saakashvili
Soft Power Russia, the new power in Central Africa With military aid and even funds for beauty contests, Moscow is on a charm offensive to make the troubled Central African Republic part of a new axis of influence feature Patricia Huon
Information War Moscow’s diplomatic trolls Russian embassy social media accounts are now on the frontline of the Kremlin’s global information war. We’ve been looking at the messages they put out brief Agata Popeda
Information War Defending journalists in an era of 'destroyed rights' The vicious digital campaign to silence Filipino news site Rappler and its CEO Maria Ressa makes clear that it’s time for a new charter for human rights online essay Peter Pomerantsev
Information War A bridge too far for Russia’s propagandists President Donald Trump might like the new Russian film “Crimean Bridge. Made With Love.” Its main villains are American journalists — who are briefly given a chance to prove they can be trusted. review Daria Litvinova
Information War The rise of the German right Coda Story in collaboration with The Center for Investigative Reporting introduction Coda Story
Information War Dana Rohrabacher Defends Himself — and Putin — in Battle to Keep His House Seat dispatch Coda Story
Armed Conflict Polluted by a war of words When a Crimean town was engulfed by toxic gas, public safety concerns were lost in a cloud of disinformation dispatch Lily Hyde
Soft Power How Kremlin democracy gets foreign approval Among Russia’s growing band of loyal “election observers” is a German politician convicted of voter fraud and a Belgian who used to like Hitler but now prefers Stalin feature Ian Bateson
Information War How Cambridge Analytica Did It With the midterms approaching, a former Cambridge Analytica insider says U.S. voters need to be aware how they are being micro-targeted all over again. video Coda Story and Katia Patin
Information War Moscow stirs fear of American germs Russian military officials renewed their scare campaign about a U.S. research lab in Georgia, this time bringing Azerbaijan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan into it as well dispatch Giorgi Lomsadze
Information War Putin’s bid to be a ‘Smarter’ Big Brother Changes to Russia’s “anti-extremism” laws may mean more extreme censorship feature Marina Bocharova
Information War The new cold front in Russia’s information war As NATO’s footprint grows in Norway, Moscow may be using an espionage case to inflame the country’s internal divisions feature Reid Standish
