Coronavirus responses highlight how humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their...
Bemoaning uneven individual and state compliance with public health recommendations, top U.S. COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci recently blamed the country’s ineffective pandemic response on an American “anti-science bias.
The secret labs conspiracy: a converging narrative
Some observers have recently argued about a convergence of narratives between pro-Kremlin and Chinese disinformation networks.
Nationalists in North Macedonia use border closures to sow confusion and mistrust
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Four experts investigate how the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory began
In times of crisis conspiracy theories can spread as fast as a virus. As the coronavirus pandemic tightened its grip on a world which struggled to comprehend the enormity of the situation it was facing, darker forces were concocting their own narratives.
China’s disinformation threat is real. We need better defences against state-based cyber campaigns
The Australian government recently announced plans to establish the country’s first taskforce devoted to fighting disinformation campaigns, under the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
Chinese white paper praises coronavirus response, but critics say secrecy costs lives
“Ma Xiaowei, director of the National Health Commission, said there is ‘no delay or cover-up’ in the Chinese government's response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Brian Whitmore: Propaganda labs
For years, Kremlin-backed media and surrogates have been vilifying laboratories in former Soviet countries participating in the U.S.
Figure of the week: 23.2%
Almost one-fourth of Russians (23.2%) consider the COVID-19 pandemic a fiction, concocted by the “interested parties”, Russian media reports.
Propaganda backfire: the Kremlin’s conspiracy theories undermine its own authority
By supporting theories aimed at destabilising the US during the Coronavirus pandemic, Kseniya Kirillova reports on how Putin has opened up a Pandora’s Box at home.
Chinese disinfo hits U.S. biolab with new COVID-19 conspiracy
“Days before the institution's (Fort Detrick laboratory) temporary shutdown in 2019, a respiratory illness was reported on June 30 at a community one hour's drive away.