Disinformation, opportunism, and gaslighting: COVID-19 as a vector for Chinese influence in Central Europe
By Louis Cox-Brusseau, for CEPA
The outbreak of COVID-19 has starkly exposed most countries’ unpreparedness for combating a global pandemic. Geopolitical weaknesses, too, are laid...
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...
Figure of the week: 203
By EU vs Disinfo
Facebook and Instagram have removed a total of 203 accounts
linked to Russia’s Internet Research Agency that were operating out of...
Coronavirus in Russia: Independent journalists call the bluff
By EU vs Disinfo
For good reasons, independent Russian journalists are in a better
position than many others to see through the pro-Kremlin disinformation
campaigns.
What...
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.”...
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...
Are universities punishing students ‘over common cold’?
By Polygraph
Dominic Gregoriosenior, University of Pennsylvania“I wish the economy and the academy were not so easily incapacitated by the common cold. I wish...
All’s fair in love and war: Democracy in a state of emergency
By Corina Rebegea, for CEPA
In
the fight with the global COVID-19 crisis, many leaders are adopting a
wartime discourse. The measures imposed—lockdowns,...
Russian senator falsely claims poles closed airspace to virus aid
By Polygraph
Alexey PushkovChairman of the commission on information policy of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of Russia’s parliament"Poland did not let Russian aircraft...
The community of collapse
By EU vs Disinfo
The Kremlin, the conspiracy theorists and the coronavirus
In an article last year,
EUvsDisinfo described the dialogue of disinformation. Disinformation
outlets need...