Monday, August 18, 2025

Salt Kills Coronavirus: StopFakeNews with Marko Suprun (No. 277)

Kill coronavirus with salt! Smoking kills covid-19. Coronavirus fakes part 2. https://youtu.be/ubANcTU-A98

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...

Sputnik: Coronavirus could be designed to kill elderly Italians

By EU vs Disinfo In a time that calls for international cooperation to fight a common threat, Kremlin mouthpiece Sputnik chooses to spread disinformation about COVID-19.  A Sputnik article published...

Disinformation can kill

By EU vs Disinfo There is only one priority now: all national, European, and international resources are focused on containing the COVID-19 outbreak. The virus...

People are getting a lot of coronavirus news from traditional media, but they trust...

By Hanaa Tameez, for NiemanLab The coronavirus pandemic continues to throw salt in the wound we journalists have about the public’s trust in news. The...

Combating ‘fake news’ in the time of COVID-19 in Myanmar

Source: Global Voices This edited article by Nan Lwin is from The Irrawaddy, an independent news website in Myanmar, and is republished on...