Kremlin Watch Briefing: How is the pandemic being abused by authoritarian regimes?
Topic of the Week
Authoritarian regimes abuse the pandemic in order to tighten their grip on their citizens and to spread their geopolitical influence while...
China’s official coronavirus timeline starts out weeks too late
By Polygraph
The government of the People’s Republic of China“Late December 2019 ‑- The Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in central China's...
Repeating A Lie Does Not Make It True
By EU vs Disinfo
One of the core elements of disinformation is persistence. Sticking to a few comfortable tropes makes lying easier. Lying repeatedly can...
Coronavirus disinformation: Moscow overplays its hand
By EU vs Disinfo
Russian authorities face criticism from the side of the EU and the US as a result of disinformation in connection with...
Disinformers take advantage of COVID-19 crisis
By Delfi
“Pharmaceutical industry denies the fact that vitamin C kills coronavirus”, “Lithuania has chosen natural selection – only the strongest will survive”, “NATO “helps”...
Kremlin propaganda demonizing NATO efforts
By Ernestas Taranas, for Vilnius Institute for Policy Analysis
Recently NATO has experienced a series of hits to its structural integrity and has proved to...
Types, sources, and claims of COVID-19 misinformation
By Dr. J. Scott Brennen, Felix Simon, Dr Philip N. Howard, Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, for Reuters Institute
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Key findings
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Fake: Ukrainian Airliner Downed in Iran was controlled by US
An Iranian member of parliament made a stunning pronouncement last week claiming that the Iranian army was right to shoot down a Ukrainian civilian...
Update: Sputnik falsely says Boris Johnson on lung ventilation
By Polygraph
Sputnik NewsRussian state-owned media outlet"Johnson will undergo artificial lung ventilation, a source close to the UK healthcare authorities told Sputnik later. “ Source:...
Bizarre in Belarus: Tractors, farms and other weird coronavirus ‘cures’
By Polygraph
Alexander LukashenkaPresident of Belarus“People on tractors are working, nobody is talking about the virus. There the tractors will cure everybody. The field cures...