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Rabbit Holes and Echo Chambers: Experimenting with YouTube

Between Summer 2021 and Fall 2022, Debunk.org’s researchers conducted a series of experiments on disinformation and popular social media....

COVID-19 Conspirators Side with Russia: Hyperbolising Inflation and Supply Chain Disruptions

Stand with Ukraine? Make sure you are ready for dire economic consequences. This was the sentiment behind disinformation narratives,...

COVID-19 Sceptics Turn to Pro-Kremlin Propaganda About the Russia-Ukraine War

Even though feelings of urgency about the COVID-19 pandemic have decreased in recent months, misleading and false claims about the virus...

False claims about COVID-19 contribute to growing popularity of disinformation actors

Misleading claims presenting measures for fighting Covid-19 as false or unfounded, were dominant and even more pronounced in October...

False narratives about Covid-19 portray vaccines as ineffective, useless, or developed too fast

In September 2021, false narratives about the vaccines were at the heart of the Covid-19 disinformation distributed by online media in...

"COVID-19 is a tool for control" and other disinformation narratives escalate distrust in vaccines

Analysis of COVID-19 disinformation throughout the month of June has shown an increasingly present disinformation on social networks,...

“World saviours”: Russia leads the fight against COVID-19, Belarus provides Sputnik V to neighbors

In addition to the wide-spread network of propaganda channels, high level officials of the Kremlin regime often amplify disinformation...

COVID-19 disinformation asserts that ‘there will never be returning to the “old normal”’

As new vaccines are being developed, there seems to be that each jab is followed by a corresponding disinformation story. Throughout...

Anatomy of Covid-19 conspiracy theories in Poland

Covid-19 pandemic is fertile soil for the spread of conspiracy theories. The fear it causes, uncertainty of the source of the virus,...

Which piece of the puzzle is Latvia in the Covid-19 vaccination campaign of European Union?

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought various unintended consequences all around the globe. However, the start of the vaccination campaigns...

‘The EU is failing the fight with COVID-19’: increased tensions amplify pro-Kremlin coverage

The news on suspending vaccination with the AstraZeneca vaccine and delays in dose supplies caused a spike of false and misleading...

Not just for fun. How memes spread disinformation on Covid-19?

It takes a short scroll through a news feed on any social media platform to stumble upon a meme. Images from well-known movies with jokes...

Baltics and Ukraine targeted for refusing Sputnik V, with social media amplifying false messages

With global COVID-19 vaccination programmes getting into the full swing, information regarding any shortcomings is used to push false and...

Waging the ‘vaccine war’: attempts to prove the superiority of Sputnik V by using disinformation

Disinformation landscape in the beginning of 2021 was heavily influenced by the reports on the suspected side effects of the...

Kremlin-related media accuses the West for deliberately discrediting Russian vaccine

Continuous introduction of strict anti-COVID measures have spurred yet another wave of disinformation. False/misleading narratives are...

Kremlin related media: Baltic countries and Poland are unable to counter COVID-19

Worldwide health crisis brought by COVID-19 is exhausting not only for healthcare systems, businesses, entire communities, but the media...

NATO drills, COVID-19 rules, alleged interference in Belarus used to target the Baltics and Poland

While the second wave of COVID-19 is raging, the pandemic still is at the core of false/misleading information targeting Lithuania,...

COVID-19 related disinformation becomes a tool to promote anti-Baltic narratives

As global health organizations keep voicing their concerns about alarming rates of COVID-19 cases, specialists are also warning about the...

Disinformers take an advantage of COVID-19 crisis

“Pharmaceutical industry denies the fact that vitamin C kills coronavirus”, “Lithuania has chosen natural selection – only the strongest...