🚨 New blog post! Yik Ching C., PhD Candidate at the University of Manchester, explores how the concept of “disinformation” changes as it travels across languages and cultures. You can read the blog post via our website - www.mis-translating-deceit.com/project-blog...

Translating Deceit Across Contexts: How Chinese public discourse reint

Translating Deceit Across Contexts: How Chinese public discourse reinterprets the concept of disinformation

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🚨 New blog post! Ray Morgan, incoming PhD student in Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, has written an insightful piece on Iran’s meme campaign. You can read it here - www.mis-translating-deceit.com/project-blog...

Slopaganda and Troll Diplomacy: Iran’s Meme Campaign and the Limits of

Slopaganda and Troll Diplomacy: Iran’s Meme Campaign and the Limits of the Disinformation Framework

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4/4 Viewing this intellectual activity as part of a global exchange redefines the origins of propaganda studies. The article is part of the historical aspect of our project (www.mis-translating-deceit.com) and shows how many current related debates have important historical antecedents.

(Mis)Translating Deceit: Disinformation as a Translingual, Discursiv...

(Mis)Translating Deceit - A 3-year AHRC-funded interdisciplinary research project aiming to develop a new, holistic approach to a key global challenge  (...

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3/4 Far from working in isolation, they drew upon thinkers such as Karl Bücher, Grant Hyde, and Walter Lippmann while developing distinctive approaches, including the application of Formalist methods to media texts, that resonated internationally.

2/4 This article situates early Soviet studies of the press in the global history of mass communication and propaganda research. In the 1920s, Soviet press scholars actively shaped global debates on the press’s role in mass society, how propaganda worked and why it often failed.

🧵1/4 New OA article by Vera Tolz and Alexandr Voronovici, ‘From Moscow to Cologne and across the Atlantic: Newspaper science and the global origins of Soviet mass communication ’, out @globalhistjnl.bsky.social. - doi.org/10.1017/S174...

🚨New blog post! Our project consultant, @nicolashenin.net, has written a fantastic piece on how social media can better serve democracy by examining four key principles. You can read the blog post via our website - www.mis-translating-deceit.com/project-blog...

How can social media enhance democracy?

How can social media enhance democracy?

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🚨 New blog post! Ray Morgan, incoming PhD student in Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, has written an excellent piece on how the Rubio cable exposes the politics of defining disinformation. You can read it here - www.mis-translating-deceit.com/project-blog...

Who Gets to Name the Lie? The Rubio Cable and the Politics...

Who Gets to Name the Lie? The Rubio Cable and the Politics of Disinformation’s Definition

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🚨New blog post! Olga K. Nanova has written a fascinating piece on how Bulgaria's Share4Pay platform monetised and amplified disinformation through a network of fake news websites. You can read the blog post via our website - www.mis-translating-deceit.com/project-blog...

Cash-for-Disinformation in Bulgaria: The Share4Pay Case - (Mis)Trans...

Cash-for-Disinformation in Bulgaria: The Share4Pay Case - (Mis)Translating Deceit

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Stephen Hutchings was invited to provide comments on Vladimir Putin’s apparent limp during his recent visit to China for the Metro newspaper. You can read the article here - metro.co.uk/2026/05/20/p....

Putin seen walking awkwardly after stepping out of a car at China summit

The Russian despot is eager to portray himself as an invincible strongman.

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In a new article, co-authored with Andy Byford and Connor Doak, Stephen Hutchings compares Russophonia with other critical models that take Russian Studies beyond the Russian Federation. It also includes brief reflections on disinformation debates. Read here - muse.jhu.edu/pub/178/arti....

Congratulations to one of our recent PhD students, Rui Wang, on her new book published in Routledge! The book explores Russian strategic narratives, digital communication and soft power in the Chinese online sphere. You can read this book here - www.routledge.com/Russian-Stra...

Russian Strategic Narratives on the Chinese Internet: Non-Linear Soft Power Projection

This book challenges the notion that strategic narratives, which carry soft power significance, are seamlessly projected to audiences. It offers the first book-length critical analysis of the non-line...

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Congratulations to Maxim Alyukov on the publication in Perspectives on Politics! The article examines how the Kremlin turned pseudo fact-checking into a propaganda strategy and how it affects citizens. It’s available here: doi.org/10.1017/S153....

Congratulations to Stephen Hutchings for the publication of his research in International Journal of Communication! You can read the full article here - ijoc.org/index.php/ij....

In the new open-access article, Alexandr Voronovici examines the evolution and internal ambiguities of separatist symbolic ‘(pro-)Russianness’ in the unrecognised Donetsk People’s Republic between 2014 and 2022. (🔗 doi.org/10.37710/plu...)

The report also references a written submission co-authored by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social and Vaclav Stetka (🔗https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/137877/html/).

In response to the Committee's inquiry, Stephen Hutchings, Vera Tolz, and Alexandr Voronovici submitted written evidence that incorporated the latest project findings. The evidence is available online (🔗https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/138094/html/).

In February 2025, Vera Tolz provided oral witness evidence at the Committee’s meeting. The transcript is available online (🔗https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/15381/html/).

Our project contributions feature prominently in the latest UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee's Report (🔗https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/52401/documents/290829/default/). @uomsalc.bsky.social

🚨New blog post! Hannah Gorlizki and Vera Tolz have written an insightful piece on how Soviet wartime propaganda deployed visual and textual strategies to undermine trust in Nazi mass communication. You can read the blog post via our website - www.mis-translating-deceit.com/project-blog...

Propaganda against Propaganda: How the Soviets Used Image and Word a...

Hannah Gorlizki and Vera Tolz have written an insightful piece on how Soviet wartime propaganda deployed visual and textual strategies to undermine trust in...

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Vera Tolz will be delivering a seminar at @weareceu.bsky.social on Thursday 29 January on health-related disinformation from the 1980s to the present. It is a hybrid event, and you can register to watch the presentation via the link - events.ceu.edu/2026-01-29/e...

Echoes of Deceit - Media, Pandemics and the Disinformation Lifecycle

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🚨New blog post! Our project consultant, @nicolashenin.net has written a fantastic piece on the impact of the "zero-click internet" on the informational ecosystem. You can read the blog post via our website - www.mis-translating-deceit.com/project-blog...

How will the zero-click internet impact the informational ecosystem? - (Mis)Translating Deceit

Nicolas Hénin explores the rise of the zero-click internet, and its implications on an increasingly changing online information ecosystem.

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Congratulations to Vitaly on the publication of two fantastic articles on sportswashing! The article published in the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics applies a disinformation lifecycle model developed by Vitaly, Vera Tolz, @stevhutch.bsky.social , and Sofia Tipaldou

Vitaly Kazakov@vitalykaz.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It is a good opportunity to have a look at my recent journal articles that call for a rethink of #sportswashing with a bigger focus on the role of media and audiences in interpreting the political power of sports: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/r... thx @uomhums.bsky.social, @fettitude.bsky.social

Congratulations to @preciouschatd.bsky.social and @maudinet.bsky.social on their fantastic blog on RT India being published on @uk.theconversation.com last week!

Precious Chatterje-Doody@preciouschatd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Short blog from me and @maudinet.bsky.social about last week’s launch of the new RT India channel and what to expect from it, written for @uk.theconversation.com @oupolitics.bsky.social @ou-gcsj.bsky.social theconversation.com/rt-india-how...

🚨New blog post! Glosia Koroluk writes about the Polish media coverage of the 2025 Moldovan elections. You can read it on our website here - www.mis-translating-deceit.com/project-blog...

When Poland Speaks with One Voice: Media Unity on Moldova’s Elections and Russian Threats - (Mis)Translating Deceit

Gosia Koroluk writes about the Polish media coverage of the 2025 Moldovan elections.

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Stephen Hutchings, Vera Tolz, and Alexandr Voronovici have had their written evidence on disinformation diplomacy published by the Foreign Affairs Committee as part of their disinfomration inquiry. Read the full submission here: committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...

Congratulations to Maxim Alyukov and Alexandr Voronovici for the publication of their research note in Harvard Kennedy School's Misinformation Review! You can read the full article here - misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/llms...

LLMs grooming or data voids? LLM-powered chatbot references to Kremlin disinformation reflect information gaps, not manipulation | HKS Misinformation Review

Some of today’s most popular large language model (LLM)-powered chatbots occasionally reference Kremlin-linked disinformation websites, but it might not be for the reasons many fear. While some recent...

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Stephen Hutchings has been quoted in the following articles for various international news outlets: - Belsat: belsat.eu/89015792/ras... - SVT: www.svt.se/kultur/ryska.... - Lupa: lupa.uol.com.br/jornalismo/2... AND lupa.uol.com.br/jornalismo/2...

Прафесар Гатчынгс: «Вучэнні – сігнал Захаду, што Расея гатовая да вайны»

52 палітычныя вязні вызваленыя, але Лукашэнка выкарыстоўвае гэта як разменную манету. А ў гэты ж час Беларусь разам з Расеяй праводзяць вучэнні «Захад-2025», якія эксперты называюць правакацыяй і рыхт...

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Our latest newsletter has just been published on our website! You can read it here - www.mis-translating-deceit.com/newsletter/n...

Newsletter #4 - (Mis)Translating Deceit

June - August 2025

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🚨New blog post! @nicolashenin.net Nicolas Henin provides a vulnerability study on Mauritania's information ecosystem, and provides solutions on how it can strengthen these vulnerabilities. You can read it on our website here - www.mis-translating-deceit.com/project-blog...

Mauritania, a laboratory for the vulnerabilities of Sahelian information ecosystems - (Mis)Translating Deceit

Nicolas Henin provides a vulnerability study on Mauritania's information ecosystem, and provides solutions on how it can strengthen these vulnerabilities.

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