On October 8, American analyst and lobbyist Michael Doran shared<\/a> this article on Twitter. \u201cThe antisemitism of this Armenian publication is off the charts. Straight out of the Nazi playbook,\u201d he wrote. His post was shared more than a hundred times, including by the member of French Senate Nathalie Goulet<\/a>. <\/p>\n However, Armenianreport.com is not a real Armenian news website. <\/p>\n The site appeared in 2010 as a Russian-language news and analytics website. Back then it was presented as a website operated from the \u201cResearch center of political and economic processes in Eurasia (Vienna, Austria)\u201d (see the archived version of the website here<\/a>). However, there is no information about this center: no reports, publications, addresses or any other signs of activity a real research center would have. The name of the center only appeared in the publications of other websites about Armenianreport.com, specifically in articles about this website presenting itself as an Armenian source, but being Azerbaijani propaganda instead (example 1<\/a>, example 2<\/a>, example 3<\/a>). <\/p>\n Since then, Armenianreport.com deleted the note on the Austrian \u201cresearch center\u201d, but warning signs about the website\u2019s inauthenticity are not difficult to spot. <\/p>\n According to the SimilarWeb<\/a> web analytics company, most of the overall traffic of Armenianreport.com, almost 42%, comes from Azerbaijan, followed by Russia and Poland. No traffic comes from Armenia.<\/p>\n It is worth mentioning that in 2011 media expert Samvel Martirosyan traced<\/a> Armenianreport.com to Azerbaijani administration using technical analysis of cookie files. <\/p>\n Fake news websites are an infowar tool<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Although Armenianreport.com is the largest and most consistently maintained propaganda website of this kind in the Armenian-Azerbaijani information war, it is not the only one. Two other websites, Volnacaspiya.com and Talyshistantimes.com, present as news websites of ethnic minorities of Azerbaijan. <\/p>\n However, as in the case of Armenianreport.com, the Google search of these websites shows little connection to the country they present themselves from: mostly Armenian news outlets refer to and republish Volnacaspiya.com and Talyshistantimes.com (example 1<\/a>, example 2<\/a>). Furthermore, Google search of a name of an author published by these websites shows<\/a> no publications in Azerbaijani media, but multiple citations by Armenian news outlets.<\/p>\n Karine Ghazaryan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An antisemitic article on website Armenianreport.com spreads on Twitter. But despite its name, this website is not a real news outlet, and is not at all Armenian. On October 5, Armenianreport.com website wrote an article titled \u201cIsrael helps Azerbaijan, so Armenia will help Palestine\u201d (original Russian title \u201c\u0418\u0437\u0440\u0430\u0438\u043b\u044c \u043f\u043e\u043c\u043e\u0433\u0430\u0435\u0442 \u0410\u0437\u0435\u0440\u0431\u0430\u0439\u0434\u0436\u0430\u043d\u0443, \u0430 \u0410\u0440\u043c\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f \u043f\u043e\u043c\u043e\u0436\u0435\u0442 \u041f\u0430\u043b\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0438\u043d\u0435\u201d)\u2024 The Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verified","author_posts-karine-ghazaryan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34341,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34332\/revisions\/34341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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