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Ukrainian troops seen during exercises in Kyiv, Jan. 22, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Sean Gallup-Getty Images)
Posted inFirst Person

I am a Ukrainian Jew. I have lost my mother to Russian disinformation

Michael Rozhkov by Michael Rozhkov and Forward April 6, 2022

My mother has been brainwashed by Russian propaganda. Aside from a brief phone call during the first week of the war, I haven’t been communicating with her. It’s too painful […]

Shelby Grossman of the Stanford Internet Observatory
Posted inTech

Q&A: How ‘fake news’ and disinformation fuel the war in Ukraine

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 24, 2022March 24, 2022
Iranian capital Tehran seen at night. (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inIsrael

Fake journalists spread anti-Israel disinformation, may be part of Iranian plot

by Ron Kampeas and JTA January 14, 2021January 14, 2021
A man carries a tattered Trump flag at a rally for the president outside the Minnesota governor's mansion in St. Paul, Nov. 14, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Trump’s crusade on facts will make defending Israel harder than ever

by JTA November 18, 2020August 28, 2024
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Posted inEducation

Q&A: How do we learn in a time of competing realities?

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller September 13, 2018September 13, 2018
Jake Tapper speaks to a full house at Congregation Emanu-El on Sunday (Photo/ University of San Francisco-Jianca Lazarus)
Posted inNews

Jake Tapper in S.F.: There are lies on both sides, time to ‘stand up for truth’

by Rob Gloster April 24, 2018
Horowitz wearing a "cops lives matter" t-shirt
Posted inNews

The Jewish filmmaker behind Trump’s gaffe on Sweden — and his Cal connection

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz February 21, 2017March 19, 2018

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