This Week From Reveal: Escaping Putin’s War Machine
Russian soldiers ride through Aleppo, 2017Christian Werner Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Are Russian military defectors spies? War criminals? Or heroes? That’s one of the central questions of this week’s episode of Reveal, which follows the dramatic journey of an officer who deserted the…
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…
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…
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…
Aleksei Navalny, Putin’s Most Prominent Critic in Russia, Is Dead
AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Aleksei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, has died in a remote prison near the Arctic Circle, the country’s penitentiary system announced on Friday. According to authorities, Navalny lost consciousness during a walk at the…