A Deepfake Is Already Spreading Confusion and Disinformation About the Moscow Terror Attack
A massive blaze is seen over Moscow’s Crocus City Hall on Friday after several gunmen burst into the music venue and fired automatic weapons at the crowd, killing at least 133 people.Sergei Vedyashkin/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After gunmen on the outskirts of…
Trump Considers Adding Paul Manafort—a “Grave Counterintelligence Threat”—to His Campaign
Paul Manafort, center, arrives in court in New York in July 2019.Seth Wenig/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.From the Nothing Matters News Desk comes this report: Donald Trump is considering bringing back Paul Manafort as a top campaign adviser. In any time other…
Russians Found a Different Way to Make Their Votes Matter
Voters line at a polling station at noon in Moscow.AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Vladimir Putin’s fifth term as Russian president is guaranteed. Opposition leaders have been imprisoned, exiled, and killed. Criticism of Putin and the war in Ukraine has been outlawed. Only…
Watch Poland Debunk Putin’s Propaganda With This Powerful UN Speech
Russian President Vladimir Putin Contributor/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Things got heated at the United Nations on Saturday during a meeting of the Security Council marking the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski rebuked a Russian ambassador…
Secretly Intercepted Phone Calls Show How Russia’s Propaganda Fueled Violence
Iryna Kalinina, 32, an injured pregnant woman, is carried from a maternity hospital that was damaged during a Russian airstrike in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 9, 2022Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On February 16, Russian authorities announced that Aleksei Navalny, President Vladimir…
Biden Blames Putin for Aleksei Navalny’s Death, Urges Ukraine Funding
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the reported death of Alexei Navalny from the Roosevelt Room of the White House on February 16, 2024 in Washington, DC. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.At a televised White House press…