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Exclusive: North Korea’s Unit 180, the cyber warfare cell that worries the West
By Ju-min Park and James Pearson | SEOUL Sun May 21, 2017 | 8:24am EDT North Korea’s main spy agency has a special cell called Unit 180 that is likely to have launched some of its most daring and...
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North Korea’s Consistently Apocalyptic Propagandists
By Hannah Beech May 14, 2017 On May 2nd, as a U.S. carrier-strike group cruised the waters off the Korean peninsula, anticipating that North Korea might soon conduct a sixth nuclear test, Pyongyang’s...
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The Russian Orthodox Church Expanding Propaganda?
Not to diminish any of the relics of the Russian Orthodox Church, but it is interesting when TASS can devote so much space to a 1,700-year-old relic and none to ongoing nationwide strikes and protests...
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Russia / Strategy Media Update – 21 May 2017 – Riyadh Summit
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. Overall, excellent comments, worldwide, about Trump’s speech. There was one glaring misstep. King Salman of Saudi Arabia and President Trump...
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“Seen on the Web” 21 May 2017 — Strategic Communications and Public Diplomacy
DIME: elements of national power – Diplomatic, Informational, Military, Economic Edited by Donald M. Bishop, Bren Chair of Strategic Communications, Marine Corps University Jeffery W. Taylor,...
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Ukrainian Facebook audience grew by 35% after blocking of Russian social...
20.05.17 11:28 After the providers began blocking access to Russian social media, the Ukrainian Facebook audience grew by about 35% per day. Also, the audience of Ukrainian portals i.ua and ukr.net has...
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Ukraine declares war on Russian social media — and some say it’s long overdue
By Christian Caryl May 19 The president of Ukraine did an extraordinary thing this week: He issued a decree banning several Russian social media networks. The free-speech liberal in me initially...
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Mexican Mob Lynches Russian ‘Nazi’ in Cancun
Russia. Spreading good will and cheer, all over the globe. Not. </end editorial> Avowed Nazi sympathizer Aleksei Makeev made himself a nuisance online in Mexico. People who have no faith in...
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The Morning Vertical — 22 May 2017
THE MORNING VERTICAL by Brian Whitmore 22.05.2017 On My Mind Vladimir Putin’s attempt to establish an anti-West is on full display today with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s visit to Moscow. In...
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Pravda Tells A Doozy Of A Lie
Pravda means “Truth” in Russian. But not according to their latest published fib. Actually, fib is too generous a word, it is a bold, blatant, absolutely boldly fabricated lie. A doozy! Just...
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Venezuela holds 5,000 Russian surface-to-air MANPADS missiles
Mon May 22, 2017 | 7:59 AM EDT By Girish Gupta | CARACAS Venezuela possesses 5,000 Russian-made MANPADS surface-to-air weapons, according to a military document reviewed by Reuters, the largest known...
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Kremlin Watch Monitor. May 18, 2017
News in the section ‘Context’ are not fakes. We publish them in order to provide you with a deeper understanding of the techniques and methods used by the Russian government in its information war. May...
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Leaks ‘expose peculiar Facebook moderation policy’
22 May 2017 How Facebook censors what its users see has been revealed by internal documents, the Guardian newspaper says. It said the manuals revealed the criteria used to judge if posts were too...
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The Daily Vertical: Challenging Russia’s Humiliation Narrative
The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL. One of the Kremlin’s favorite talking points is that the West somehow humiliated Russia in the aftermath of the...
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Ankara Summons U.S. Ambassador In Dispute Over Washington Brawl
Turkey summoned the U.S. ambassador on May 22 to protest what it called the “aggressive and unprofessional actions” of U.S. authorities against the bodyguards of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during...
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Exposing Fake News Trending
Last night a tragic event occurred in Manchester, England. A suicide bomber killed at least 22 people and wounded at least 60 others. Immediately sick people also flooded the internet with fake news:...
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China Intervenes to Block Businessman From Revealing Spying Secrets on VOA
I can attest as to the integrity of Bill Gertz. Top-notch reporter, impeccable credentials, and very reliable. He is well known for his deep connections. This story, however, is worrisome on many...
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Putin’s Anti-Ukrainian Propaganda Playing Role State Anti-Semitism Did in...
In order to promote Rus as the predominant culture within Russia, anti-Semitism or anti-Zionism became standard practice within the Soviet Union, in order to integrate and totally subjugate any...
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Discord In Moscow’s Disinformation Machine
Sputnik responded to a legal threat here. “Sputnik has faced pushback in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia,” which indicates there is a modicum of responsibility somewhere...
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Russian Official, Ozerov, Is безумный (bezumnyy)
Viktor Ozerov, Chairman of the Defense Committee of Russia’s Federation Council, stepped on his male appendage and emasculated his formerly male self. “Unfortunately, what happened in Manchester was a...
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