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...
The great phony: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fake quarantine letter
By Polygraph
All across the Internet“Read the classics. This is a quarantine letter by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was isolated in south of France...
Figure of the week: 76 million
By EU vs Disinfo
Advertisements for some of the best-known global brands are
funding some of the most notorious disinformation sites in Europe – to...
Hitler Salutes in the Time of Coronavirus: StopFakeNews with Marko Suprun (No. 276)
Coronavirus fakes.
https://youtu.be/PbOmVc3YQh8
Fake: Ultra-Right Groups to Patrol Transport during Corona Virus Quarantine in Kyiv
This week the Strana.ua news site announced that ultra-right groups will be checking people’s documents in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv during the corona virus...
Fake: Crimea Supported Ukraine for Many Years
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that annexed Crimea had always subsidized Ukraine despite the fact that the peninsula itself was lacking. Putin made this...
Fake: Ukraine’s Military Donbas Offensive Cancelled Due to Coronavirus
Pro-Kremlin media and local media in the Russian occupied parts of eastern Ukraine are busy spreading fakes claiming that coronavirus has spread among Ukraine’s...