Disinformation, opportunism, and gaslighting: COVID-19 as a vector for Chinese influence in Central Europe
The outbreak of COVID-19 has starkly exposed most countries’ unpreparedness for combating a global pandemic. Geopolitical weaknesses, too, are laid bare, and China’s revisionist approach to handling the pandemic adds fuel to an increasingly volatile situation in Europe.
Fake: Accusing Kremlin of Disinformation, EU and US Hide Pandemic Failures
Reacting to EU and US accusations that Moscow had launched a large scale disinformation campaign about the COVID-19 pandemic Russian media accused the West of Russophobia and of wanting to hide their mistakes…
Figure of the week: 203
Ghana and Nigeria and targeted the United States. Earlier this month, a cross-platform social media influence operation linked to the Internet Research Agency (IRA) but run from Africa was exposed through a…
Coronavirus in Russia: Independent journalists call the bluff
campaigns. What has been the response of Russian fact-checking journalists to recent messages about the coronavirus in Kremlin-controlled media?
The news media sounded the alarm on coronavirus for months — but few listened....
“It’s clear that the public’s lack of trust in journalism generally mirrors the public’s lack of trust in coronavirus journalism specifically. By Jacob L.
Fake: Nothing Scary in Covid-19
The pro-Kremlin media has been spreading conflicting stories about the new coronavirus COVID-9. Well known personalities, particularly those who regularly participate in Russian political talk shows are claiming that the coronavirus is not at all scary or threatening.
Are universities punishing students ‘over common cold’?
“I wish the economy and the academy were not so easily incapacitated by the common cold. I wish (U. Penn) President Gutmann had heard the COVID-19 mortality rates in the U.S. were just above 0.1 percent, very similar to the seasonal flu, and acted like it.
All’s fair in love and war: Democracy in a state of emergency
wartime discourse. The measures imposed—lockdowns, postponed elections, and surveillance—buy time, but they go beyond anything most people in the Western world have seen since the 1940s.
Russian senator falsely claims poles closed airspace to virus aid
Chairman of the commission on information policy of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of Russia’s parliament "Poland did not let Russian aircraft carrying aid to Italy pass through its airspace.
The community of collapse
EUvsDisinfo described the dialogue of disinformation. Disinformation outlets need to adopt to the audience, carefully map and understand sentiments, prejudice and ideals.