WebsiteFederal News AgencyHe has been involved in investigations by Russian journalists several times.How the “troll factory” evolved into a “media factory”It seems that your message is incomplete. Could you please provide the text you would like me to translate?Russia’s Infamous “Troll Factory” Is Now Posing as a Media Empire“And just last week, there was an investigative publication titled”A pro-Kremlin news channel is promoting homophobia with a scandalous video.It turned out that this website was quite popular among the Belarusian computer internet audience aged 15-74 in June 2020:It seems like you might want to provide more text for translation. Please share the text you’d like me to translate, and I’ll be happy to help!
Almost in the middle of the top one hundred most extensive (popular) websites in Belarus, according to the media research gemiusAudience.
How the number of readers of certain Russian news resources changed during the first half of 2020:
The total audience takes into account that readers may have visited several or even all of the listed websites. The number of readers who visited all the sites over the course of a month ranged from 21,000 in January to nearly 39,000 in March 2020. The largest audience for all the sites was in March 2020, during the period when the first cases of COVID-19 appeared in the region and quarantines were being implemented in neighboring countries to Belarus. This suggests that people were seeking additional information from familiar news sources, possibly due to a lack of information on Belarusian news websites.
Let’s focus on the socio-demographic characteristics of the Belarusian online audience of riafan.ru in June 2020. Of nearly232 thousand people“Among the entire audience, readers aged 55-74 accounted for”43.5%It seems that your message is empty. Could you please provide the text you would like me to translate?35%“Readers had higher education. The age of the audience correlates with their profession.”24.2%“Retirees. More.”20%“These are specialists, senior specialists. The third large group.”9.4%– These are skilled workers and craftsmen.15%have a monthly income of 400 to 600 USD. By place of residence: Minsk –31%“large industrial cities, but not regional centers”18.5%“small towns and rural areas”20.8%Behavioral characteristics of the Belarusian audience of the “Federal News Agency” website. What other websites did the readers of this site visit during June 2020?
The histogram shows the total audience of the specified websites along with riafan.ru, while the graph illustrates the percentage share of the overlapping audiences. It is evident that the Belarusian audience of Riafan.ru is predominantly interested in Russian news resources. There is a significant overlap, nearly 80%, with the websites infox.sg, howto-news.info, mir24.tv, rusplt.ru, and tvzvezda.ru. According to SimilarWeb data, only…3.6%In June 2020, traffic to the website came primarily from Belarus.
In the section dedicated to Belarusian news, one can find articles with alarming headlines such as:The SBU general explained how the Chernihiv region could transition to Belarus.
A political scientist explained why Ukraine should intervene in the internal affairs of Belarus.
Of course, official Belarusian and Ukrainian representatives do not use such discourse, but this kind of publication can serve as a source of distrust and suspicion between the peoples of Belarus and Ukraine, as it always touches on sensitive issues of territorial integrity.
Material“Belarus has followed in Ukraine’s footsteps, exchanging friendship with Russia for U.S. oil. Column by the Voice of Mordor.”“Published on February 1, 2020, it garnered nearly a record-breaking 6,600 likes, 684 shares, 169 retweets, and 2,300 comments according to BuzzSumo.”
The website riafan.ru76 timesIt is mentioned on the EUvsDisinfo website as a source of unreliable information. Belarus is indicated as an object of unreliable information only once. Most cases are related to Ukrainian news.
Given the significant popularity of this website among the Belarusian internet audience, it is extremely important to provide accurate coverage of news, especially international news, as there are virtually no Belarusian news websites specializing in international, primarily European, news.
The publication was prepared by the Baltic Internet Policy Initiative.
