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Life Behind Russia’s Veil of Misinformation | The New Republic
by Alyona Minkovski
April 29, 2022
How can the Russian people possibly support the invasion of Ukraine? The longer this war continues and stories of civilian executions, rapes, and other…
From the Arab Spring to Russian censorship: a decade of internet blackouts and repression | Rest of World
by Peter Guest
April 27, 2022
On February 27, a few days after Russia invaded Ukraine, radio journalist Valerii Nechay returned to St. Petersburg from a…
China’s most chaotic social network survived Beijing’s censors — until now | Rest of World
by Viola Zhou
April 25, 2022
The chaotic Chinese social network Douban never looked for fame; it was designed for people with niche obsessions and an…
Russia blocks Radio France Internationale, Moscow Times websites | Reuters
by Reuters
April 15, 2022
Russia has blocked access to the websites of Radio France Internationale and the Russian-language service of The Moscow Times, the…
How do you stop fake news about Covid? Not by silencing scientists who ask difficult questions | The Guardian
by Zoe Williams
March 29, 2022
Carl Heneghan is an epidemiologist first and foremost, professor of evidence-based medicine at Oxford, probably many other things – good…
A ban in Brazil made Telegram change its stance on misinformation | Quartz
by Nicolás Rivero
March 22, 2022
Telegram is the last major social network that refuses to moderate misinformation. The app, which has over 500 million users,…
Facebook and Instagram remain banned in Russia for ‘extremist’ activities | The Verge
by Emma Roth and Richard Lawler
March 21, 2022
A judge in the Tverskoy Court of Moscow has ruled to ban Meta based on Facebook and Instagram for engaging…
With Instagram banned, Russians are further isolated from the world | Poynter
by Tom Jones
March 15, 2022
Russia was expected to ban Instagram early Monday. Roskomnadzor, Russia’s communications regulator, said, “We need to ensure the psychological health…
How “fake news” became Russia’s excuse to end press freedom | The Washington Post
by Will Oremus
March 14, 2022
Last week, Russia passed a law making it a major crime to publish what it deems “fake” news about the…