From Social Media to the Front Line: Russia’s Foreign Recruitment Pipeline
This report traces how Russia sustains its war in Ukraine by recruiting foreign nationals, many of them deceived or coerced, through a global pipeline of social media advertisements, intermediaries and disposable websites.
Welcome, Péter Magyar: Hungary’s new leader joins Zelensky as a target of disinformation in...
This report compiles the results of monitoring conducted between April 1 and June 30, 2026, as part of the ATAFIMI project, which aims to identify and analyze incidents of information manipulation and interference (FIMI) originating from Russia in various countries and languages.
False: The ROC military is using BB guns to fight the enemy
The BB-gun shooting event is a national-defense education competition for reservists, not regular military training.
A circulating video claims “French citizens hold a parade to mourn the Nanjing Massacre”
The circulating video splices together unrelated footage. Fact-check reporter: Tseng Hui-wen Managing editor: Chen Wei-ting The original publication can be read here.
Online claim: “The anti-toxic-oil rally in Taiwan received no media coverage at all”
Multiple media outlets reported on it. Fact-check reporter: Chiu Shao-an Managing editor: Ho Hui-an The original publication can be read here.
False: The tree-felling route in Taipei’s Boai Special District matches that of a PLA...
The claim is a far-fetched fabrication; there has been no large-scale tree-felling in the Boai Special District.
Fake: Central Taiwan is undergoing population replacement — the Chinese immigrant population in Taichung’s...
The data is wrong; immigrants from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau make up 1.44% of Beitun's total population.
Why the information space has become a minefield for EU CSDP missions and operations
When Armenian voters renewed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s mandate in the June 2026 parliamentary elections, they did more than choose a government. They chose closer cooperation with the European Union.
Distance Won’t Protect You: Belarusian Transnational Repression in Canada
Property seizures, family interrogations, and digital surveillance show how Belarus punishes its diaspora on Canadian soil In August 2025, a Belarusian Canadian community organizer living in Alberta, whom we…
False: Wang Jin-pyng advocates handing military and diplomatic affairs to the mainland, with all...
It's fabricated disinformation. Fact-check reporter: Hsu Yun-kai Managing editor: Chen Wei-ting The original publication can be read here.