The Civic Resilience Initiative (CRI), a Lithuanian NGO helping combat hostile propaganda, has just released a comprehensive new report examining and debunking false Russian narratives targeting audiences in the Baltic nations.
Propastop interviewed David Patrikarakos, author of the book „War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century”
On March 18th, a European wide media competency week began, where Estonia’s guiding principle was „ Think before you share“.
European Media Literacy Week started on Monday and part of it is a test, which measures your resistance to information disorder measures and the e-course connecting environment Desinfotest.ee.
Estonia’s ranked fifth among 35 countries in the index for media literacy and resistance to false information drawn up by the Open Society Institute of Sofia, being the only Eastern European country along side the top cluster of nations.
Zoja Paljamar, a Russian propagandist from Estonia, raises questions about sanctions and authenticity in her recent Facebook post, highlighting the presence of Estonian products in the St. Petersburg store. Rakvere company denies exporting to Russia, making this case a remarkable propaganda scenario worth closer examination.
Attacks on Estonia’s information space have increased dramatically since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Project Valerian aims to tackle the problem at its source.
At the beginning of June, the book “Lie Detector’s Handbook“ (Valheenpaljastajan käsikirja) by Finnish journalist and blogger Johanna Vehkoo was published in Estonian. “
This time your ability to identify both locations and times when photographs were taken is being tested.
Put your intuition to the test in our Propastop picture game. Help identify what time these pictures represent and win a prize!