Journalism in Times of Increaseing Propaganda. Western Media and Russia’s Information Warfare.
Journal: Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University)
Year: 2017

In the early spring of 2014, the world witnessed the full power of Russia’s Information Warfare, when Russian troops invaded and annexed Crimea. The incident was preceded by weeks of intensive information campaigns to mislead the Ukrainian population and to subvert the government in Kyiv. But a closer look at these so-called information campaigns shows that they were not exclusively aimed at Ukraine, but also at its Western allies. Journalists were misled by an abundance of fake news and false e