A data-driven check, not a verdict.
Is redacted.inc a Russian
disinformation site?
Look for yourself. Every article published on redacted.inc has been scored against seventeen hallmarks of Russian state-media messaging, catalogued by RAND, EUvsDisinfo, and the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab. The numbers are below. The sources are linked. You decide.
See the fingerprint ↓The propaganda fingerprint
A radar of the seventeen hallmarks. Each axis is one Russian-state-media talking point. The further the shape pushes along an axis, the more of redacted.inc’s coverage carries that framing. A site unconnected to these narratives would be a dot in the middle.
What each hallmark actually says
These aren’t our categories. They’re taken from established cataloging of Russian state-media talking points. Click any card to read the exact evidence the AI scorer found for each one.
How the scoring works
Every public article on redacted.inc — 2,627 of them, 2022 to 2026 — was passed to claude-haiku-4-5 with two fixed prompts: one scoring the article’s framing of 102 named entities on a −2…+2 scale, and one scoring the presence of each of the seventeen Russian-state-media hallmarks on a −1 (refutes) to +2 (actively advances) scale. Same model, same prompts, every call — so the numbers on this site are cross-comparable.
A few things to keep in mind. The scorer was told to read for sarcasm, because the site’s house style is dry — but tone detection is the most likely place for it to misfire. Articles were capped at 6,000 characters; long pieces were scored on the lead. An entity or hallmark that is absent from a score is treated as “not discussed,” not “discussed neutrally.”
Hallmark sources: