Moscow has been honing an information age art of war - through fake news, disinformation, leaks, and trolling - for more than a decade. How can free societies protect themselves? The panel will take ...
Galina Timchenko
Galina Timchenko is a Russian journalist and the executive editor of Meduza.
From 1997 to 1999, she worked as an editor at the Kommersant newspaper. In 1999 she joined the newly-created online news website Lenta.ru, becoming editor-in-chief in 2004. In 2010, Harvard University conducted a study of the Russian blogosphere, identifying Lenta.ru as the most widely quoted news source among Russian-language websites.
In March 2014 Galina Timchenko was fired. The employees of Lenta.ru issued a statement that the reason for the move was to appoint a new editor-in-chief controlled directly by the Kremlin and turn the website into a propaganda tool. In October 2014, Timchenko, together with several former journalists of Lenta.ru, set up the media organisation Meduza, based in Riga (capital of neighbouring Latvia).
In this session, three experts on Russia and the former Soviet space will discuss the phenomenon of fake news, told within the context of modern Russia. Amie will moderate a panel between Natalia and ...
