Daily disinformation: Gaslighting the neighbors
Russia has long been using disinformation, weaponized corruption, organized crime, and oligarchic structures to maximize its influence in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.
Russia’s EU rep rewrites Cold War history with bogus conspiracy theories
“... American Plan Totality developed on the personal order of Harry Truman after the atomic bombings of Japanese Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, to carry out nuclear attacks against 17 major Soviet cities and industrial centres.
The Belarusian approach to the outbreak
Belarus’ defiant attitude towards the COVID-19 outbreak has caught the world’s attention. While most other European countries – including Russia – have introduced strict lockdowns, Belarus has remained open.
Kremlin Watch Briefing: The Kremlin’s revisionism of WWII history
FB spotted and took down accounts linked to influence ops based in Russia, Iran, Georgia, US, Mauritania and Myanmar Russia sides with China over American COVID-19 allegations Kremlin's Current Narrative…
EEAS Special Report update: short assessment of narratives and disinformation around the COVID-19 pandemic...
Note: The objective of this report is to provide a snapshot overview of the current trends and insights into disinformation activities related to COVID-19/Coronavirus.
“Not funny at all”
Bill Gates-bashing is back in the COVID-19 narrative on Russian state-controlled TV, paired with anti-vaccine messaging.
Boosted by Russia, a viral video falsely claims Italy wants Bill Gates arrested
"Italian Government call for arrest of Bill Gates. Source: YouTube, May 14, 2020 FALSE On May 14, the YouTube channel “prisoners0fprogress” posted a video captioned “Italian Government call for arrest of Bill Gates.
Secret labs and George Soros: COVID-19 disinformation in the EU Eastern Partnership countries
As COVID-19 spread across the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood, conspiracy theories, misleading information and disinformation followed in its wake.
Nigerian pastor spreads COVID-19 conspiracies and disinformation
Check out Global Voices’ special coverage of the global impact of COVID-19. When it comes to spurious information and the coronavirus, it has been an open season with some Nigerian evangelical pastors.
In Georgia, clerics use anti-vaxx rhetoric, call pandemic a “bluff”
“It has been transpiring that the current pandemic – as I have been told and also, I watched some programs I was sent via WhatsApp yesterday – is, after all, a bluff.