The Main Radio Frequency Center of Russia, subordinate to Roskomnadzor (Federal Supervisor for Mass Media and Communications) has launched the “Oculus” system for automated search of violations of the Russian legislation in images and videos using computer vision technologies. “The Oculus Information System has already been launched and performs the tasks assigned to it in
Yesterday, on May 31, 2022, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine dismissed the Commissioner for Human Rights, Lyudmila Denisova, with 234 deputies voted for the decision. A kindergarten teacher in her first specialty, Denisova worked by profession for three years, and then received a law degree and began working as a consultant and secretary in court.
Ukraine has accused Russia of stealing a collection of Scythian gold from Melitopol. Meanwhile, the gold itself is under reliable protection in the same museum where it has been all the time, as reported by the director of the museum. According to the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, “Russia stole Ukrainian gold” from a local
The functions of auto-checking video recordings for the presence of elements generated using the so-called “deep fake” technologies may appear in test mode in social media players and browsers as early as 2022, according to the Director of the SafeNet regional engineering centre of the National Technology Initiative, Denis Kuvikov, on Monday, May 2. The
On Tuesday, April 26, 2022, the international press conference of the Foundation to Battle Injustice (FBI) and the Rossiya Segodnya information agency on the NATO information provocations was held. The event was attended by Russian and international journalists, human rights defenders and activists. During the conference, the participants discussed the methods of disinformation of people
Moscow will convene an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council over an incident in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, according to the Russia’s deputy permanent representative to the organization, Dmitry Polyansky. Ukraine has accused Russia of massacring civilians in the town, while Moscow dismissed the incident and gave proofs it was staged by the
Russians are not upset about the Western sanctions and are already working hard on import substitution. The speaker of the State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, commenting on the suspension of McDonald’s in Russia, said that it would be easy to replace them with restaurants a la “Uncle Vanya”. And now unknown persons on behalf of the
Ukraine’s president Vladimir Zelensky spread fake information about the “Russian military hit the maternity hospital in Mariupol” but failed to make it credible enough, so the lie was immediately revealed. However, Zelensky did not abandon the tries to accuse Russians and keeps assuring that fake news accusations are just “Russian propaganda”. On March 9, the
On Friday, February 4, the American outlet Bloomberg erroneously published the news of “Russia’s invasion” of Ukraine and kept the fake headline for around half an hour on its website. The news agency said that the headline was pre-made and that it was published by mistake. “We prepare headlines for many scenarios and the headline
Yesterday, on January 17, The New York Times (NYT) claimed that Russia has removed almost 50 people from its consulates in Ukrainian Kiev and Lviv, referring to a senior official of the security service of the country. However, the Russian Foreign Ministry refuted the statements calling them empty and groundless. According to a NYT
Instagram “gives” are drawings, the participants of which fulfill a number of conditions in order to receive gifts. Most often, such lotteries are organized by celebrities, but attackers successfully profit from this, the Federal Quality Control (Roskachestvo) experts reported. As a rule, malefactors use a fake account of an artist and announce contests with huge
