February - 2022

Feb 28
1 min

The Guardian: Whistleblowers call out Channel 4 News over ‘gagging orders’.

Whistleblowers Gretchen Carlson and Zelda Perkins are among dozens of high-profile women calling on Channel 4 News to free all former staff from “gagging orders” amid mounting concern over the programme’s alleged use of confidentiality agreements to silence staff in equal pay, discrimination, harassment and victimisation cases... Employers often use NDAs and confidentiality clauses in the settlement of employment cases, but campaigners argue they can be misused to bury cases

Feb 27
1 min

The New Yorker: Russia’s Last Independent TV Channel Covers the Invasion of Ukraine.

TV Rain, Russia’s sole remaining independent television operation... Russia had demonstrated against the invasion on Thursday. OVDInfo, an organization that tracks political persecution in the country, was reporting 1,960 people detained; most were facing fines, but several had been sentenced to jail time or were facing criminal prosecution. Authorities have blocked access to the OVDInfo site for Russian Internet users, and have branded the organization itself a “foreign agen

Feb 20
1 min

The New York Times: Russia has been laying groundwork online for a ‘false flag’ operation.

A new report by the European Expert Association, a research group that focuses on security in Ukraine, and the technology watchdog group Reset Tech said that since October, misinformation researchers had observed rumors circulating widely online and in Russian news media that could be groundwork for such an operation, or to help justify a military buildup... At the request of The New York Times, the Global Disinformation Index, a nonprofit research group, independently evalua

Feb 11
1 min

The New York Times: A Movement to Fight Misinformation ... with Misinformation.

Birds Aren’t Real, a conspiracy theory with an apparently absurd premise, has become surprisingly popular in the past few years. But its followers were in on the joke: The movement’s aim was to poke fun at misinformation … by creating misinformation.

Feb 7
1 min

National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin: Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland

The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors. These threat actors seek to exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest, which could potentially

Feb 3
1 min

CBS NEWS - U.S. reveals Russian plot to use fake video as pretense for Ukraine invasion

The U.S. has revealed new intelligence of a Russian plot to use a phony video as a pretext for an invasion of Ukraine. Senior administration officials said Thursday that the U.S. believes Russia has already recruited players to stage a propaganda video depicting "graphic scenes of a staged false explosion with corpses, actors depicting mourners, and images of destroyed locations and military equipment. U.S. officials registered a record-breaking number of efforts by Russian s