Figure of the week: 23.2%
By EU vs Disinfo
Almost one-fourth of Russians (23.2%) consider the COVID-19 pandemic a fiction, concocted by the “interested parties”, Russian media reports. An additional 9%...
Propaganda backfire: the Kremlin’s conspiracy theories undermine its own authority
By Kseniya Kirillova, for Byline
By supporting theories aimed at destabilising the US during the Coronavirus pandemic, Kseniya Kirillova reports on how Putin has opened...
Chinese disinfo hits U.S. biolab with new COVID-19 conspiracy
By Polygraph
Global Times“Days before the institution's (Fort Detrick laboratory) temporary shutdown in 2019, a respiratory illness was reported on June 30 at a community...
Fake: Ukraine to Revise the EU Association Agreement Due to its Inequality
This week Russian media announced that Ukraine is about to revise its Association Agreement with the European Union. They came to their senses six...
A bad day in court for NS2: litigation, disinformation, and Russia’s energy weapon
By Alan Riley, for CEPA
Nord Stream 2 is in battle mode. The Russian-German gas project appears to be applying every possible legal argument and...
The Malthusian straw men
By EU vs Disinfo
How pro-Kremlin outlets use cheap rhetorical tricks
A straw man is a rhetorical trick, used in polemical debate. You attack your opponent, refuting arguments,...
Stalin Saved Crimean Tatars: StopFakeNews with Marko Suprun (No. 286)
Fake: Survey shows Ukrainians liked living in the USSR. Crimean Tatars owe Stalin. Ukraine may lose several more regions.
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Infodemic in Italy: A Parliamentary intelligence committee lays bare Russian and Chinese interference
By Francesco Bechis, for CEPA
It’s official: China and Russia used the covid-19 pandemic to propagate and spread disinformation in Italy, exploiting the emergency for...
Fake: Ukrainian Are the Only Ones in the World who Pay a Murder Tax
Ukraine introduced a war tax in 2015. Is there still a country in the world where people pay for the killing of their own...
MIGs in Libya, contradicting Moscow’s denials
By Polygraph
Andrey Krasovdeputy chair of the Russian State Duma’s Defense Committee" yet another American scary tale. This is fake and disinformation in the spirit...