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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 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...

Georgia’s mass vaccination plans were challenged by a widespread disinformation campaign

Vaccine-related mis/disinformation has been widely circulating in Georgian social and online media. Pro-Russian groups,...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

With a dramatic surge of COVID-19 cases, Baltic states may be facing the second wave of infodemic

With a rapidly increasing number of COVID-19 cases, healthcare systems, businesses, the general public are nothing less but exhausted —...

Latvia had the widest spread of COVID-19 related disinformation in May

The Debunk EU analysis of COVID-19 related disinformation in three Baltic countries in May revealed that more than a half of this kind of...

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...