Friday, May 8, 2026

Video Fake: “Ukrainian Soldiers” Claim the Authorities Are Not Ending the War Because It...

Videos are circulating online in which individuals posing as Ukrainian soldiers claim that the authorities are deliberately prolonging the war because it benefits them....

Fake News: Eight Ukrainian Athletes Didn’t Return from Italy After the 2026 Winter Olympics

This is a made up report, confirmed by neither Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee nor by the Youth and Sports Ministry. Social media users are spreading...

Inauthentic networks fuel Poland’s border vigilante movement

AI-generated content and inauthentic activity distort Poland’s immigration debate By Givi Gigitashvili, Sopo Gelava, for DFRLab Citizen patrols along Poland’s border with Germany triggered a surge in online...

Total Recall: How Russia Tried to Erase the Ukrainian Identity

By EUvsDisinfo Imagine a world where your past is not yours – where every event, every hero, every town can be deleted and replaced with...

Manipulation: Ukraine Boycotts Paralympics

Assertions that Ukraine is “boycotting the Paralympics” misrepresent the country’s stance. Kyiv is not withdrawing from the Games; the so-called boycott is limited to...

What the Kremlin Wants You to Believe About Its War Against Ukraine

By EUvsDisinfo Five recurring false narratives the Kremlin uses to justify and distort its war against Ukraine. Russia has carried out online disinformation and FIMI campaigns...

Video Fake: Ukrainian Loss Figures Amount to 2 Million People — Deutsche Welle

The video attributed to Deutsche Welle has been manipulated. A 20-second segment was spliced into an authentic report, reusing original visuals but replacing the...

When Defeat Becomes Disinformation

By EUvsDisinfo Throughout 2025, Russian officials were repeatedly shut out of the governing bodies of international organisations – a direct consequence of Kremlin’s unprovoked war...

Fake: Germany Proposes to Mitigate Punishment for Ukrainians Who Use Nazi Symbols

The Bild story, like the initiative described in it, is made up. A story is circulating online citing Bild about a proposal by one of...

Fake: Kyrylo Budanov Exposed International Olympic Committee Members After Athlete’s Disqualification

The video circulating under the Reuters logo and shared across multiple pages is a fabrication. It adds fictional claims that Kyrylo Budanov, Head of...