Information Policy

Telegram Latency and Belarus

During the past weeks we have been monitoring an increase of latency against the Telegram network from Belarus.

MLI launches DisinfoWatch project led by Marcus Kolga

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute is pleased to launch a new foreign disinformation monitoring and debunking platform, DisinfoWatch.org, with a specific focus on COVID-19. The site will track and analyze foreign disinformation narratives, examining how they align and are amplified by domestic platforms, groups and actors.

Pro-Kremlin media misrepresent Belarusian opposition’s policy platform

An “anti-Russian” national security reform agenda that pro-Kremlin media linked to the opposition was never part of the opposition’s official platform

Belarusian Officials Shut Down Internet With Technology Made by U.S. Firm

By Ryan Gallagher Protesters quickly find digital workarounds to document demonstrations, police violence

A quarter of Belarusians rely on Russian media for news, new study says

By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia

One Belarusian in four has not read the Belarusian media during the last month but instead relies on Russian media often delivered via the Internet, according to Mikhail Doroshevich, the director of the Baltic Internet Policy Initiative, on the basis of a new survey.