Disinformation and propaganda

It has been one year since the launch of the Svoboda satellite and countering Russian propaganda has never been more important. The Svoboda project, launched by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) currently offers 12 independent television channels

Since July 2024, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has been targeted by a disinformation campaign. The videos use the credible reputation of RSF to make the Kremlin’s narrative seem legitimate and fact-based in the eyes of the public.

RSF priority campaigns raise awareness among decision-makers and the public around key issues facing press freedom and the right to reliable information.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has published its 2024 Activity Report. It highlights the scale of the NGO's activities to protect reliable, independent information at a time when press freedom suffered dramatic setbacks worldwide.

The Taliban authorities are tightening their grip on the dissemination of information in Afghanistan.

In the case of Novaya Gazeta v. Russia, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has condemned Russia for abusing the pretext of a "national security threat" to systematically restrict reporting on the war in Ukraine.

For over a year, the Kremlin-funded website International Reporters has been masquerading as a professional news outlet in order to spread Russian disinformation.

For the past ten years, the Cairo office of Russian state media outlets RIA Novosti and Sputnik has centralised their international news coverage in  Arabic.

For the second year running, the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos has ranked disinformation as the greatest short-term risk to society