뉴스프런트 (웹사이트)

NewsFront (website)
뉴스프런트
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사이트 유형
통신사
설립.2014
본사
서비스 지역전 세계
주요 인물콘스탄틴 크니릭
산업뉴스 미디어
URLnews-front.info

뉴스프런트(NewsFront)는 러시아가 점령하고 있는 크림반도에 거점을 둔 웹사이트입니다.이 통신사는 러시아어 독일어 영어 불가리아어 그루지야어 프랑스어 스페인어 [1]등 10개 언어로 뉴스를 내보내는 통신사라고 설명했다.2021년 미 재무부는 이를 크림반도에 기반을 둔 허위 정보 및 선전 수단이라고 표현했다.특히 우크라이나에서 [2]러시아 지원군을 지원하는 데 초점을 맞췄다.그러나 소유주 콘스탄틴 크니릭에 따르면 뉴스프런트는 러시아[3]대한 불공정 공격에 맞서 정보전쟁을 벌이고 있다.

리더십과 출신

NewsFront는 크림 반도 중부 바흐치사라이에 본사를 둔 Mediagroup Newsfront LLC에 의해 발행되며, 지역 의회 의원 Constantin Knyrik의 [4]집 주소로 등록되어 있다.뉴스프론트를 운영하는 것 외에 크니릭은 친푸틴 정당인 로디나의 [5]크림 지부장을 맡고 있다.크니릭의 공동 소유자는 러시아 기업인 미하일 시넬린으로, 그는 크렘린 [4][1]관료 출신이다.

뉴스프런트는 러시아의 크림 침공 당시인 2014년 3월 크니릭이 복면을 쓴 괴한과 함께 크림탐사저널리즘센터 본부에 침입해 자원을 [6][7]넘겨받으면서 창간됐다.

2015년 4월, 미디어 그룹 뉴스 전선 회사는 NewsFront.info를 사설 [8]통신사로 등록했습니다.

크니릭은 2018년 인터뷰에서 [3]서방 주류 언론이 발행한 이 헛소리에 맞서는 것이 유럽과 미국 사람들의 대체 정보원이라고 밝힌 바 있다.[3]

허위 정보 혐의

2017년 독일 신문차이트뉴스프런트앙겔라 메르켈과 에마뉘엘 [9]마크롱에 대한 잘못된 주장을 내세워 독일과 프랑스 양쪽의 선거에 영향을 미치려 했다고 주장했다.대서양 평의회에 따르면, 뉴스프런트는 2017년에 독일에서 러시아 선전의 3대 소스 중 하나였다.러시아 공식 매체 RT와 스푸트니크와 함께,[10] 그들의 콘텐츠는 페이스북에서 50만 명의 팔로워를 가지고 있다.

2019년 EU vs Disinformation은 NewsFront가 독일어를 구사하는 불만을 가진 청중을 RT와 스푸트니크로부터의 뉴스에 대한 친크렘린적 관점으로 끌어들이기 위해 독일어판을 반이민 독일 민족주의에 초점을 맞추고 있다고 밝혔다.영어판도 같은 목표를 추구하지만 '좌편향' 해설로 [11]이민에 대한 내용은 없다.

2020년, 미 국무부는 뉴스프런트를 "정보와 선전 생태계"의 일부라고 표현했다.이 생태계에서는 러시아와의 연관성이 불분명한 다른 국가들과 협력하여 그들의 [12]아이디어에 대한 폭넓은 관심을 끌기 위해 러시아 국가 행위자들이 협력했다.

2021년 국무부 기밀정보에 근거한 한 관리는 월스트리트저널에 뉴스프런트는 러시아의 KGB[13]후임 기관인 FSB에 의해 "지도되고 있다"고 말했다.2021년 타임지뉴스프런트를 "현재까지 가장 성공적이고 야심찬" 러시아 주도 웹사이트로 묘사하며 COVID-19와 [7]백신에 대해 잘못된 주장을 했다.를 들어 뉴스프론트는 미국 정부가 코로나바이러스를 만들어 중국에[12] [14][15]의도적으로 수출했다는 주장을 실었다.

2021년과 2022년에 미국 재무부는 뉴스프런트에 대한 제재를 발표하면서 2022년에 뉴스프런트를 "크림반도에 기반을 둔 허위 정보 및 선전 수단...[2][16] 특히 우크라이나에서 러시아 지원군을 지원하는 데 초점을 맞추고 있다"고 규정했다.

소셜 미디어

NBC뉴스따르면 2020년 4월 페이스북과 트위터는 뉴스프런트[17]사우스프론트연계된 러시아 배우들의 '협조된 무인증 행동'과 연계된 많은 페이지와 계정을 삭제했다.

2022년 2월, 페이스북은 NewsFront와 SouthFront의 [17]정책을 위반하는 추가 활동에 대해 다시 조치를 취했다.독일 마셜 펀드에 따르면, 새로운 위반은 불법적[18]URL이 뉴스프론트와 동일한 내용을 보여주는 미러 사이트에 링크를 게시함으로써 금지령을 회피하는 데 도움을 준 가짜 프로필이 포함되었다고 한다.미러 사이트 외에 클로킹 사이트, 즉 NewsFront의 [19]URL로 브라우저를 리디렉션하는 URL도 사용했습니다.

레퍼런스

  1. ^ a b "A fake news lab Part II: A man from the Crimea". RISE Moldova. August 28, 2020. Archived from the original on March 6, 2022. Retrieved March 6, 2022. News Front's website...is property of the Russian firm OOO МедиаГрупп Ньюс Фронт (MediaGroup News Front Ltd, as translated from Russian), which is co-owned by two men: half of its equity capital is held by Konstantin Knyrik, a native of Bakhchisaray city in the Crimea, and half is held by Mikhail Sinelin, a Russian national who had worked in the secretariat of the Russian Government..
  2. ^ a b "Treasury Escalates Sanctions Against the Russian Government's Attempts to Influence U.S. Elections". United States Department of the Treasury. April 15, 2021. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021. Retrieved February 27, 2022. NewsFront is a Crimea-based disinformation and propaganda outlet that worked with FSB officers to coordinate a narrative that undermined the credibility of a news website advocating for human rights...NewsFront was also used to distribute false information about the COVID-19 vaccine, which further demonstrates the irresponsible and reckless conduct of Russian disinformation sites.
  3. ^ a b c Rossbach, Andreas (May 29, 2018). "Meet The Kremlin's Keyboard Warrior in Crimea". Coda Story. Archived from the original on March 6, 2022. Retrieved March 7, 2022. Germany, Europe’s largest and most powerful state, has been a favorite subject for News Front’s stories — usually imbued with divisive spin. A report that ran last year...claimed that thousands of teenagers, most of them 'refugees and migrants,' had started a violent rampage through the city. But the story was false, according to Correctiv, a Berlin-based media-monitoring outfit which has been following News Front’s output. There had been an incident in the city, said Jacques Pezet, one of the Correctiv fact-checkers, but at most just a few dozen people had been involved and it was a mixed group, not only migrants.
  4. ^ a b "Russian propaganda in faces: who owns the Crimean Internet". Radio Free Europe. July 21, 2016. Archived from the original on March 8, 2022. Retrieved March 7, 2022. News Front was established by Mediagroup Newsfront LLC, registered in Bakhchisarai at the place of residence of one of the owners, deputy of the Bakhchisaray City Council Konstantin Knyrik. He is also the head of the agency. Russian citizen Mikhail Sinelin is listed as the second founder of Mediagroup Newsfront
  5. ^ "Russia: the oligarchs and business figures on western sanction lists". The Guardian. March 4, 2022. Archived from the original on March 5, 2022. Retrieved March 6, 2022. Konstantin Knyrik Said by the EU to be a pro-Russian activist running MediaGroup News Front Ltd, a news website registered in the illegally annexed Crimea, he is also chief of the Crimean division of the pro-Kremlin Rodina party.
  6. ^ "Masked Gunmen Seize Crimean Investigative Journalism Center". Global Investigative Journalism Network. 2 March 2014. Archived from the original on 5 March 2022. Retrieved March 6, 2022. As Russian troops streamed into Crimea, Ukraine, yesterday, masked gunmen broke into and seized the office of the Crimean Center for Investigative Journalism, a hub for independent media in the region, and the Crimean investigative center.
  7. ^ a b Shuster, Simon (March 21, 2021). "Meet the Russian 'Information Warrior' Seeking To Discredit COVID-19 Vaccines". Time (magazine). Archived from the original on March 5, 2022. Retrieved March 6, 2022. In early March of that year, while Russian troops seized control of the region, Knyrik led a column of pro-Russian paramilitaries to the offices of the Crimean Center for Investigative Journalism, which was the region’s leading independent news source at the time.
  8. ^ "Russian Troll Factory Expanded and Harassing Independent Press". Polygraph. December 10, 2018. Archived from the original on March 8, 2022. Retrieved March 7, 2022. According to Russian tax authorities’ data, NewsFront.info was registered with Roskomnadzor (the Russian federal agency regulating mass media and communications) in April 2015 as a private “news agency” by a company called 'Media Group News Front.'
  9. ^ "Fake News: War Without Blood". Die Zeit. February 6, 2017. Archived from the original on March 7, 2022. Retrieved March 7, 2022. Allegedly, NATO has also put 3,600 tanks into position against Russia. In January, it was reported that 700,000 Germans had left their homes in Germany because of Merkel's refugee policy. After New Year's Eve, a false report claimed that 1,000 immigrants had lit on fire a church in Dortmund. None of this is true.
  10. ^ "Russia Has Launched a Fake News War on Europe. Now Germany Is Fighting Back". Time. August 9, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2022. News Front reporters have somehow been granted extraordinary access to the Russian armed forces. They often embed with Russian troops and paramilitaries fighting in Syria and eastern Ukraine, frequently running footage or live streams from the front lines.
  11. ^ "NO NEWS ON THE NEWS FRONT". EU vs Disinformation. April 29, 2019. Archived from the original on February 6, 2022. Retrieved March 21, 2022. First the hard data: News Front was established in November 2014 at the web host reg.ru. It was visited by slightly below 5 million in March 2019. Half their audience is in Russia, 22 percent in Ukraine, 4.6 in Bulgaria and 3.11 in Germany.
  12. ^ a b "GEC Special Report: August 2020: Pillars of Russia's Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem" (PDF). United States Department of State. 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 6, 2022. Retrieved February 23, 2022. News Front is a Crimea-based disinformation and propaganda outlet with the self-proclaimed goal of providing an 'alternative source of information' for Western audiences, a branding technique common among actors in Russia’s disinformation and propaganda ecosystem. With reported ties to the Russian security services and Kremlin funding, it is particularly focused on supporting Russian proxies in Ukraine. News Front is one of the most blatant Russian disinformation sites, and its manipulative tactics to boost reach led to a near total dismantling of its presence on social media in early 2020.
  13. ^ Gordon, Michael R.; Volz, Dustin (March 7, 2021). "Russian Disinformation Campaign Aims to Undermine Confidence in Pfizer, Other Covid-19 Vaccines, U.S. Officials Say". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on February 28, 2022. Retrieved February 28, 2022. Another publication, News Front, is guided by the FSB, a security service that succeeded the KGB, the official said. It is based in Crimea, produces information in 10 languages, and had nearly nine million page visits between February and April 2020, the [U. S. State Department] official added.
  14. ^ "Disinfo: US servicemen imported coronavirus intentionally into China". EU vs Disinfo. March 20, 2020. Archived from the original on March 18, 2022. Retrieved March 10, 2022.
  15. ^ "WHO IS BEHIND MISINFORMATION ABOUT LUGAR LAB SPREAD BY NEWS FRONT AND GEWORLD?". MythDetector.ge. March 23, 2020. Archived from the original on March 25, 2022. Retrieved March 9, 2022. On 18 March 2020, News Front Georgia published an article titled “Coronavirus has not originated in China! Hello, Lugar Laboratory!” Referring to Global Research Canada and the government of China, the article alleged that the coronavirus was intentionally imported into China by US servicemen.
  16. ^ "Treasury Sanctions Russians Bankrolling Putin and Russia-Backed Influence Actors". United States Department of the Treasury. March 3, 2022. Archived from the original on March 6, 2022. Retrieved March 6, 2022. NewsFront is a Crimea-based disinformation and propaganda outlet that worked with FSB officers to coordinate a narrative that undermined the credibility of a news website advocating for human rights. NewsFront was also used to distribute false information about the COVID-19 vaccine. With the self-proclaimed goal of providing an “alternative source of information” for Western audiences, Newsfront is particularly focused on supporting Russia-backed forces in Ukraine.
  17. ^ a b Collins, Ben; Kent, Jo Link (February 27, 2022). "Facebook, Twitter remove disinformation accounts targeting Ukrainians". NBC News. Archived from the original on February 28, 2022. Retrieved February 27, 2022. Facebook removed profiles related to News Front and South Front in 2020, and the company confirmed to NBC News that the new group shared connections to the accounts that were previously banned. Both websites have pushed misleading articles, questioning the results of the 2020 presidential election and the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines. The State Department identified the websites as Russian disinformation outlets in a 2020 report.
  18. ^ "Russia's Affront on the News: How NewsFront's Circumvention of Social Media Bans Demonstrates the Need for Vigilance". German Marshall Fund. February 4, 2021. Archived from the original on March 13, 2022. Retrieved March 9, 2022. both Twitter and Facebook suspended NewsFront accounts and banned link-sharing from the website in 2020—the outlet has innovated to avoid detection and continue spreading its content online to unwitting readers. Through a network of 'mirror sites, websites that are identical to the original NewsFront website but use innocuous domain names, NewsFront has continued to push content on Facebook and Twitter, skirting link-sharing bans and targeting audiences around the world.
  19. ^ "All quiet on the Newsfront? Part 2". EU vs Disinfo. April 21, 2021. Archived from the original on March 10, 2022. Retrieved March 10, 2022. Finally, the third tool used by NewsFront was cloaking (or masking) domains. It means that links shared on social media by accounts connected to NewsFront looked as if they were to another website, whereas in fact they were only used as a redirect to the actual domain of NewsFront.