Analysis

Numerous international organizations, as well as fact-checkers from Ukraine agree that on the Internet, especially on Telegram, unreliable, staged video materials with paid actors have been created, with the sole purpose of undermining the…

Albania has given refuge to a rebel group from Iran, incurring the wrath of that country. Iran was then suspected of major hacking attacks on Albania’s government computer network. On the other hand, Albania even cut off diplomatic…

The Kremlin’s propaganda intention to portray itself as some sort of great protector of traditional and family values also reaches Macedonian citizens through social networks and a part of them accept those moves from Russia with…

The disinformation front regarding food has become particularly strong with the beginning of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine. In May 2022, the Russian authorities and state media outlets reinforced efforts to blame the United…

Disinformation targeting Harris is distinctive not only because it consists of falsehoods, but also because it is gender-specific, infused with stereotypes and prejudices that undermine a woman’s ability to attain a high position. What…

In June 2023, France exposed an extensive Russian disinformation campaign called Recent Reliable News (RRN), named after a pro-Russian website. Earlier in February, the French government warned about a network of about 200 portals that…

Russia, which took control of Durov’s first company and which prompted him to establish Telegram while being in exile is now expressing concern about his arrest. Media outlets there report on the absurdity of the accusations against him and…

Russian propaganda tried to portray the fact that the Ukrainian government banned the Moscow-affiliated Orthodox Church as a “persecution of Christians” and as a tendency of the West, which supports Ukraine, to destroy Orthodoxy and the…

It’s not very difficult to note that every other post on the website is anti-Western and portrays Western countries as unjust, controversial and full of crime. Conspiracy theories aimed at fostering disruption and uncertainty among citizens…

Back in early June, Microsoft warned that Russia is waging a malign disinformation campaign aimed at the Paris Olympics and the French President Emmanuel Macron. According to their information, the influence operations include fabricated…

Current phenomenon of anti-Catholicism can be seen on social networks where the Orthodox beliefs of Macedonian citizens are being manipulated. Such promotion of anti-Catholicism comes either from the neighborhood or from Russia and that can…

Numerous conspiracy theories and disinformation spread following the attempted assassination of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump. Truthmeter examined several of the narratives shared in the country so far, that coincidentally or…

Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the elections brought to life an old Russian narrative, also present in neighboring Serbia as well as in our country as harmful foreign influence and that is that the Western leaders are weak and ephemeral, while…

A frequent Kremlin narrative is that Iraqi leader Hussein, Libyan Gaddafi, and Syrian Assad were great patriots with good social policies, but victims of American imperialism, leading to the emergence of some new, worse structures like the…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán headlined the last month with the amount of information and disinformation both concerning Russia and its position on peace in Ukraine and concerning the role of other major powers in this conflict. But…

The topic of climate is fertile soil for spreading disinformation. Denying the existence of global warming, conspiracy theories claiming the climate change is a tool in the hands of secret societies or powerful individuals in order to…

A new study by an international team of fact-checkers, led by Maldita.es, traced the path of Russian disinformation about Zelensky, his family, and those in his inner circle. The disinformation traveled from fake news portals and small…

A chain reaction of Russian high-level officials was triggered by the delivery and operational deployment of long-range Western missile systems used by the U.S. and Germany. At the beginning of June 2024, a Ukrainian Member of Parliament…