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...
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...