Disinformation about Ukraine in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” has almost doubled over the last two years, with most of the favorites for fake news the same as in the Russian state-controlled media. Oksana Romanyuk, whose Institute for Mass Information (IMI) carried out the studies both two years ago and in April of this year, believes the Russian-controlled “republics” may be ladling on the fakes to compensate for their dwindling power to influence the local population.
Copy and paste this URL into your WordPress site to embed
Fake news and lies about Ukraine almost double in Russian proxy ‘republics’
Disinformation about Ukraine in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” has almost doubled over the last two years, with most of the favorites for fake news the same as in the Russian state-controlled media. Oksana Romanyuk, whose Institute for Mass Information (IMI) carried out the studies both two years ago and in April of this year, believes the Russian-controlled “republics” may be ladling on the fakes to compensate for their dwindling power to influence the local population.