In Georgia, clerics use anti-vaxx rhetoric, call pandemic a “bluff”
By Polygraph
Archibishop AntonArchibishop of the Vani and Bagdati Eparchy of the Georgian Orthodox Church“It has been transpiring that the current pandemic – as I...
Australia Parliament debunks 5G COVID-19 conspiracy theory
By Phil Mercer, for VoA
An Australian parliamentary report has debunked a conspiracy theory linking COVID-19 to 5G technology. Anti-lockdown protesters in Australia and beyond...
Stanisław Żaryn: Putin’s “corona-diplomacy”
By Stanisław Żaryn, for StopFake
In the COVID-19 pandemic Vladimir Putin sees a chance to pull Russia out of its international isolation. Therefore, the coronavirus...
Capitalizing on the coronavirus conspiracist frenzy
By EU vs Disinfo
As the COVID-19 crisis continues to monopolise public life around the world, conspiracy theories about the virus continue to gather steam...
Figure of the week: 117 million
By EU vs Disinfo
Harmful misinformation on coronavirus was shared over 1.7 million times on Facebook and viewed an estimated 117 million times. These results...
Americans struggle to navigate COVID-19 “infodemic”
By JEJeffrey M.Jones, for Knight Foundation
The novel coronavirus pandemic has spawned what the World Health Organization is calling an “infodemic,” an overabundance of information —...
Kremlin Watch Briefing: Disinformation campaigns on COVID-19 in the V4
Topics of the Week
HR/VP Borrell was questioned by the European Parliament on the watering down of the EEAS disinformation report due to Chinese pressure.
Kremlin...
Lavrov Says ‘Not a single fact’ supports accusations of Russian COVID19 disinfo. In fact,...
By Polygraph
Sergei LavrovRussian Minister of Foreign Affairs"As far as claims by the European External Action Service are concerned, the claims that our countries have...
COVID-19: Pro-Kremlin media defend Beijing
By EU vs Disinfo
Kremlin-controlled media have defended Chinese authorities against criticism, combining disinformation with pro-Beijing reporting.
On 20 April, Russian TV lashed out against the...
COVID-19 Without Independent Journalism
By EU vs Disinfo
Imagine a coronavirus crisis with no journalists to report and hold authorities accountable.
Such a reality exists: in Russia, a journalist with Novaya Gazeta, Elena Milashina, has...