Thursday, January 8, 2026

Ukraine is an American Project: StopFakeNews with Marko Suprun (No. 262)

Fake: US Secretary of State calls Ukraine an American project. European Commission recommends Ukraine buy gas directly from Russia. Ukraine is ready to end...

All You Need to Know to Search like a Pro on Instagram

By OSINTcurious, for GIJN Editor’s Note: This post by the OSINTCurio.us Project‘s Technisette was based on a presentation at the Dutch OSINT Conference 2019 about...

Fake: Donbas Residents to be Forcibly Resettled to Lviv for Reeducation

Russian media were busy this week disseminating fakes about what Ukraine was allegedly planning to do with the residents of occupied Donbas after the...

Russian TV’s False Claims About Morales, Pompeo

By Polygraph Olga Skabeyeva, Yevgeny PopovRussian state TV hosts“We know perfectly well those who arranged all this, who sought the resignation of Morales –...

Fake: Ukraine Agrees with Russia’s Position on the Donbas

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko’s recent BBC Ukrainian service interview gave rise to an avalanche of Russian fakes and manipulations. Ukraine is ready to...

Fake: Russia Returns Captured Ukrainian Ships out of “Good Will”

Russia is a peace-loving country and friendly towards Ukraine – that is why on November 18 the Kremlin decided to return to Ukraine three...

Who’s Afraid of the Brown Stink Bug?

By EU vs Disinfo Measles and swine flu epidemics, bioweapons, lethal experiments on people… – Georgian Lugar Lab has been subject of a massive disinformation...

China’s Mid-Election Information Campaign in Taiwan

By Ketty W. Chen, for Disinfo Portal In the midst of the struggle between authoritarian influence and democratic resilience, Taiwan stands at the forefront...

What should newsrooms do about deepfakes? These three things, for starters

By John Bowers, Tim Hwang, and Jonathan Zittrain, for Nieman Lab Headlines from the likes of The New York Times (“Deepfakes Are Coming. We...

“Troubling”: High school students (like most people) are not good at evaluating misinformation

By Christine Schmidt, for Nieman Lab Sad non-surprise: Young people are not great — actually are kind of terrible — at evaluating digital sources on...