Few developments in recent history have so suddenly and ruthlessly laid bare the vulnerabilities and fragility of contemporary life as the COVID-19 outbreak. Within just a few short months, the virus has profoundly transformed life around...
Attacking the local authorities in Prague, the pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets chose to ignore the historical facts, as they have multiple times in the past – namely, that Red Army’s victory did not bring liberty to many of the...
As EUvsDisinfo wrote last week, the pro-Kremlin media is slowly turning away from the virus and it seems the left-over attention has turned back towards Ukraine. Looking back to December last year, we found weeks where the number of cases...
The first case in the Disinformation Database with this claim was detected 29 January, when Russian news agency RIAFAN told the reports on the outbreak were merely a stunt by “Big Pharma” to up their profits. This claim, “The...
The anti-vaxxer trope saw notable growth, beginning in mid-March when several pro-Kremlin outlets published an article from the Canadian disinformation website Global Research, which suggested that the COVID-19 outbreak is a pretext for...
It likely comes as no surprise that a significant proportion of these latest thousand cases relates to the coronavirus: a whopping 21.5% are about COVID-19, even though the first case on the topic – “a new Chinese coronavirus was...
Lies are easier to remember if you stick to the same stories. Professional journalists need to check facts, corroborate data, and find sources. Disinformation operatives just need to stick to a few handy storylines, plots, narratives and...
Comparing the cases on the coronavirus published between January 22 and March 25 with the caseload from this week alone, it appears that the anti-American vibe is still going strong. In total, we have collected 39 cases claiming that the...
A Sputnik article published on 15 March promoted an entire catalog of unfounded theories about the origin of the coronavirus: from the idea that COVID-19 could originate in Latvia to the suggestion that it could have been created as a...
This dangerous game has gone on for two months now. The first piece of disinformation we recorded on the coronavirus appeared in Russian state-funded Sputnik News on January 22nd. The narrative was in place from the beginning: the virus is...
In part one, I conceptualized the Hybrid War. I argued that it is a long term strategy, aimed at ensuring victory through parallel and synchronized use of military and non-military means. Read part 1: What if? Hybrid War and consequences...
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