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Moscow’s help to Italy in connection with the coronavirus has been covered extensively, both in international and in Russian media.

The EUvsDisinfo database has been accumulating coronavirus-related disinformation cases for more than two months – it’s time to take a look and see what’s hiding in plain sight.

The outbreak of COVID-19 has starkly exposed most countries’ unpreparedness for combating a global pandemic. Geopolitical weaknesses, too, are laid bare, and China’s revisionist approach to handling the pandemic adds fuel to an increasingly volatile situation in Europe.

Pro-Kremlin media are using the COVID-19 pandemic as a reason to call for the lifting of Russia sanctions, claiming the sanctions are not working and it would make better sense to lift them so that Russia could fight the virus with the rest of the world.

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 of Russophobia and of wanting to hide their mistakes…

Ghana and Nigeria and targeted the United States. Earlier this month, a cross-platform social media influence operation linked to the Internet Research Agency (IRA) but run from Africa was exposed through a…

Putin's Chef threatens to the U.S. with a lawsuit while the U.S. senators urge the EU to put him on a sanctions list.

campaigns. What has been the response of Russian fact-checking journalists to recent messages about the coronavirus in Kremlin-controlled media?

“It’s clear that the public’s lack of trust in journalism generally mirrors the public’s lack of trust in coronavirus journalism specifically. By Jacob L.

Kill coronavirus with salt! Smoking kills covid-19. Coronavirus fakes part 2.