How “Censorship” Became “The Fight Against Disinformation” in Germany: A Story in Six Steps
Step 1: 2014 – Ukraine
After the coup in Kiev in 2014, the media across the spectrum — from right to left — started reporting...
Deception through omission: ‘The War on the OPCW’
An academic paper from the University of New South Wales in Australia describes four incidents where a virtual firehose of Russian propaganda was directed...
Whose Disinformation Is It Anyway? BBC vs Critical Academics
BBC Radio recently broadcast a File on 4 programme called Ukraine: The Disinformation War, promoted with the strapline ‘British academics accused of sharing Russian...
Mainstream news media, the state and censorship: What amounts to undue influence?
An article appeared in early editions of The Times on Saturday 18th June 2022 that alleged that Boris Johnson had attempted to hire Carrie...
In A Compromised Media Environment, Western Intelligence Agencies Escalate NATO’s Proxy War In Ukraine...
The NATO Proxy War: A Bird’s Eye View
As winter bites, the current NATO proxy war that has raged for almost a year shows no...
Propaganda for Beginners Part 1: The Primacy-Effect
Introduction
Propaganda is a well-known and effective tool for manipulating public opinion. We are familiar with the term, but many associate it — especially in...
The Warped Logic of Douglas Murray
Sooner rather than later, every student of propaganda has to face the fact that a lot of what the propagandist says is not designed...
Models of War Propaganda and Media
The Study of Propaganda
The formal study of propaganda is impregnated with academic discourses from literature (including rhetoric and narrative), linguistics (semiotics), sociolinguistics (discourse), psychology...
The Tragedy of Yulia Skripal
Somewhere, isolated from the rest of the world, nerve agent victim Yulia Skripal recently turned 40. She miraculously survived her alleged exposure to a...
Far-Right Extremists and Neo-Nazis are Everywhere (but some are more ‘worthy’ than others)
February 2022 was a crucial turning point in human affairs. For two years, all matters Covid-19 dominated the public sphere, yet within a few...