Secret labs and George Soros: COVID-19 disinformation in the EU Eastern Partnership countries
By EU vs Disinfo
As COVID-19 spread across the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood, conspiracy theories, misleading information and disinformation followed in its wake. For pro-Kremlin media,...
Fake: Crimean Tatars “Owe Stalin”
While Ukraine and Crimean Tatar Diasporas throughout the world commemorated Crimean Tatar Deportation Remembrance Day on May 18, Russian bots and trolls launched yet...
Fake: Ukraine May Lose Several Regions
The collapse of Ukraine and the disintegration of the country into various regions is the ultimate dream of Russian propaganda which has been successfully...
Nigerian pastor spreads COVID-19 conspiracies and disinformation
By Nwachukwu Egbunike, for Global Voices
Check out Global Voices’ special coverage of the global impact of COVID-19.
When it comes to spurious information and the coronavirus,...
In Georgia, clerics use anti-vaxx rhetoric, call pandemic a “bluff”
By Polygraph
Archibishop AntonArchibishop of the Vani and Bagdati Eparchy of the Georgian Orthodox Church“It has been transpiring that the current pandemic – as I...
Trouble in Disinfo World: StopFakeNews with Marko Suprun (No. 284)
Peddling fakes gets Russia’s NewsFront kicked off Facebook. Economic degradation: Russian media on Ukrainian land reform
https://youtu.be/dBN08V1kwuM
The Atlantic’s executive editor talks conspiracy theories, journalistic norms, and new products for all...
By Sarah Scire, for NiemanLab
“I had people believing outlandish, harmful things who were repeating back to me the values that I, as a journalist,...
Australia Parliament debunks 5G COVID-19 conspiracy theory
By Phil Mercer, for VoA
An Australian parliamentary report has debunked a conspiracy theory linking COVID-19 to 5G technology. Anti-lockdown protesters in Australia and beyond...
Stanisław Żaryn: Putin’s “corona-diplomacy”
By Stanisław Żaryn, for StopFake
In the COVID-19 pandemic Vladimir Putin sees a chance to pull Russia out of its international isolation. Therefore, the coronavirus...
Capitalizing on the coronavirus conspiracist frenzy
By EU vs Disinfo
As the COVID-19 crisis continues to monopolise public life around the world, conspiracy theories about the virus continue to gather steam...