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2022 April

April 30 - disinformation headlines
EU “deeply concerned” about Russia’s failure to cooperate with the investigation into Navalny’s attempted assassination
Russia falsely claims US laboratories have moved from Ukraine to Mongolia
No evidence supports claim that the MTHFR gene influences the risk of side effects from vaccines and medications like Tylenol
Belarusian KGB misleads about amended bill in conspiracy claim about the US preparing for war with Russia
NATO jets scramble in response to Russian aircraft over Baltic and Black Seas
UK to send 8,000 soldiers to Eastern Europe on expanded exercises
April 29: Russia cooks up a conspiracy theory about Poland, more antisemitism, and US bad
Updated: Ukraine reports Russia stealing grain and preventing exports
Russian media publishes doctored photo to claim Zelenskyy does cocaine
Change of plans Kremlin-orchestrated ‘referendums’ on Donbas ‘republics’ joining Russia postponed until May
Positive data reported for Valneva, Pfizer’s Lyme disease vaccine candidate for children
As Western social media apps leave Russia, Snap’s Zenly hangs on
How Russia benefits from ill-informed social media policies
The European network of corona-deniers
Disinformation is entrenched in Telegram
Assembling the Russian Nesting Doll: UNC2452 Merged into APT29
"NATO enters the conflict": Russian experts voice versions of French special forces in Ukraine
Pro-CCP network targeting opinions of Japanese citizens in the US
Hamilton Toplines: April 18–24, 2022 – Alliance For Securing Democracy
How Russia employs fake fact-checking in its disinformation arsenal
Ukrofascists prepare staged demonstration of civilian killings
China reports first human case of H3N8 bird flu
Shedding light on LinkedIn’s enforcement of health misinformation policies: A pilot study
China’s Covid Lockdown Outrage Tests Limits of Propaganda
Child Hepatitis Cases NOT Related To J&J Vaccine -- It's NOT Approved For Youths In US Or UK
Don’t Believe China’s Misleading COVID-19 Death Counts
Blasts in Russia-backed Transnistria Pose 'Risk to Moldova': President
243 crimes against journalists and the media in Ukraine committed by Russia in two months of war
Building the “Big Lie”: Inside the Creation of Trump’s Stolen Election Myth
Russia Announces Ceasefire around Steel Plant in Ukraine’s Mariupol to allow civilian evacuation
Ukraine invasion: 'stage two' of Russia's war is ringing alarm bells in nearby Moldova – here's why
2022-04-25 - newsletter
Russia recruits healthy men over 18 for a "14-day" mission to the Mariupol district to "help Donbas residents."
DISINFO: Six neo-Nazis preparing to assassinate journalist Solovyov detained
Germany can't wait to fight Russia again
NO Evidence COVID-19 Vaccines Suppress Innate Immunity, Increase Risk To Infectious Diseases, Cance
US Narrative Won’t Survive Defeat In Donbass
No hostilities underway in Mariupol, life is returning to normal
Russian Orthodox Church participates in acts defined as genocide by the UN, aiding in forced relocation of Ukrainians, including abducted children
Russian mercenaries are Putin’s ‘coercive tool’ in Africa
Ukrainian Orthodox priest from Kherson was tortured by Russians
Turkic World Culture denies Armenian genocide on Twitter
The Center for Countering Disinformation analyzes Hitler's and Putin's propaganda
Study findings misrepresented to overstate vaccine myocarditis risk
Trump establishes social media company in Sarasota near Rumble
Briefing on a provocation against the Russian Federation prepared by the USA and NATO with the accusation of using nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons
Russian Defense Ministry falsely claims that the US and NATO have "reached the final stage of setting up provocations in Ukraine"
Russian War Report: Google refutes misleading claims about blurring Russian military assets
2022-04-23 - newsletter
Injured, alone and destined for a Russian orphanage, a 12-year-old Ukrainian girl is recruited for Moscow's information war
New E.U. landmark law targets Big Tech firms over hate speech, disinformation
Video Does NOT Prove Government, Media Lies About War In Ukraine -- Video Recycles Debunked Claims, Misattributes Info
Defense Department Did NOT Award Contract For 'COVID-19 Research' In Ukraine 3 Months Before Virus Was Known
US is not orchestrating a takeover in Ukraine
False: This image shows a Ukrainian flag being removed and a Soviet flag hoisted in its place in Mariupol during the 2022 Russian invasion.
Russia’s war on Ukraine: NATO response
AI Is Already Learning from Russia’s War in Ukraine, DOD Says
Uncovering the scope of the Bucha massacre
Vaccine Medical Exemptions Are Rare. Thousands of Nursing Home Workers Have Them
Cyberattack Causes Chaos in Costa Rica Government Systems
Russia’s QAnon Followers Can’t Make Up Their Minds About Ukraine
Ukraine's postal service hit by cyberattack after sales of warship stamp go online
N.Y.C. School Employees, Accused of Faking Vaccine Proof, Are Put on Leave
At least 5 Russian Enlistment Offices Torched by Arson
How games, TikTok, and fake fact-checking sites became disinformation tools during the war in Ukraine
Bellingcat is Banned in Russia. Here’s How to Beat the Block
The Integrity of French Elections Could Be on the Line This Sunday
Moldova protests to Russia over comments by top military commander
Report reveals Big Tech’s last-minute lobbying to weaken EU rules
No Evidence 'Vaccines Are Killing People Of Color At Twice The Rate Of White People,' As HHS Head Said On April 14, 2022
Claim by Mercola that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine causes immunosuppression is inaccurate, misrepresents study’s findings
Fauci's comment about lockdowns, vaccination twisted out of context
After years of Covid denial, Bolsonaro calls time on the pandemic
Russia Ducks Blame for Blowing Up Global Food Chains
False Claim: Bioweapons
Russia: program of 'patriotic education' aims to create the next generation of Putin faithful
Russia falsely claims US laboratories have moved from Ukraine to Mongolia
No, Putin didn’t free 35,000 children from Ukraine
Dubious Russian Claims About Ukrainian POWs (mp4)
Securing Democracy Dispatch – Alliance For Securing Democracy
Russian propaganda regains strength in western Europe
He Was a Penniless Donor to the Far Right. He Was Also a Russian Spy.
Viral Post Misstates Facts About Infant Mortality And Vaccines In Japan And US
All In For Censorship (And Hypocrisy) at the Kremlin
Russian troll farms aiming disinformation war at Canadian anti-vaxxers: Global Affairs expert
Duterte vetos surveillance law in the Philippines protects his troll farms
Disinfo Update 19/04/2022 - EU DisinfoLab
Pro-CCP inauthentic social media accounts shift focus to the Quad
Russian state-controlled websites cited in hundreds of Wikipedia articles despite ban
Faces of Kremlin Propaganda: Dmitri Peskov
The Use of the Russian Troll During Crimea
False claims about Romanian Red Cross, Russia concealing war crimes, and evidence conflicts with helicopter attack claims
Disinformation Campaigns Skewing Young People's View of War in Ukraine
[podcast] Bret Schafer Evaluates Russian Disinformation Campaigns on EU Now
Exploring the Association between Misinformation Endorsement, Opinions on the Government Response, Risk Perception, and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the US, Canada, and Italy
Russia’s propaganda machine takes another hit
Russian War Report: Russia promotes misleading video accusing Ukraine of using mannequins as casualties
Increase in acute hepatitis of unknown origin among children
How Extremism Operates Online: A Primer
Russian trolls tried to distract voters with music tweets in 2016
A Decade of Deceit: Examining over ten years of pro-Kremlin narratives from a single Twitter user
New accounts deny Bucha Massacre and boost pro-Kremlin narratives about the invasion
Russian Spy Chief Falsely Claims Poland Wants Ukrainian Territory
Persistent myths that HIV was created by the West and that HIV medication causes HIV are both false
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2022 May

Poland in the eyes of Russian propaganda - from the "hyena of Europe" to the "Nazi hegemon of Central and Eastern Europe"
Ukraine's fact-checkers find Russian disinformation surprisingly basic
Russian blockade of Ukraine's grain exports may require U.S. intervention, general says
Chinese and Russian propaganda work in tandem to blame the West for war in Ukraine
Why unlikely events spur conspiracy theories and how to tell which are real
Ukraine has been successful in its information operations recently not least because it “permitted the soldiers to speak"
The Administration’s Approach to the People’s Republic of China
The US Should Ban China’s State Media From Social Platforms
Fact-checking Marco Rubio claim that no guns used in mass shootings were bought online
Russia posts proof-of-life style videos where Ukrainians read from script and claim to have undergone "denazification"
Compilation of Countries’ Statements Calling Russian Actions in Ukraine “Genocide”
Winning the Web: How Beijing Exploits Search Results to Shape Views of Xinjiang and COVID-19
War criminals identified: identification data of scouts of the Russian 64th Motorized Rifle Brigade. Part 2
No, Russia Has Not Brought ‘Security and Stability’ to Mali
False from Russia: Japan’s Opposition to War in Ukraine is an ‘Alliance with Nazism’
Lessons from Russian and Chinese COVID Information Operations
China is on a path to becoming a global military power; that path goes through Africa
YouTube has restricted over 70,000 videos and 9,000 channels related to the war in Ukraine that violated the platform’s content guidelines
Facebook’s new data-sharing plans raise old concerns
As war rages on in Ukraine, why aren’t the Dutch talking about MH-17?
Ukraine war: Crisis between the west and Russia gives Turkey a chance to strengthen its hand at home and abroad
Unsubstantiated: Ukraine Mined a Chemical Plant to Blame Russians
The Legal Challenges Presented by Seizing Frozen Russian Assets
Misleading: Russia Slows Ukraine Offensive to Save Civilians
Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 25, 2022 expediting citizenship for Ukrainians
Wagner Group, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, and Russia's Disinformation in Africa
Fascist Fashion: How Mainstream Businesses Enable the Sale of Far-Right Merchandise
Peaceful Transnistria expects aggression from the West
Why The Entire Ad Supply Chain Is At Fault For Disinformation
Bulgaria to set up unit to monitor disinformation in media, social networks
Watching Ukraine, US special ops realizes it's behind on information war capabilities
New Evidence Shows How Russian Soldiers Executed Men in Bucha
Pro-Russia online operatives falsely claimed Zelensky committed suicide in an effort to sway public opinion, cybersecurity firm
Twitter increases its efforts to moderate content about the war in Ukraine, citing disinformation concerns
Russian Political Warfare Is a Rising Menace
Information Operations Surrounding the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Trending articles in the Russian information ecosystem
Examples of users spam tweeting about #TwitterExposed hashtag
Russian TV jokes about missiles hitting London as Putin's propaganda reaches a new level
Disinformation article from Kremlin promoting the bioweapon narrative that started with Russian intelligence in 2017
Russia claims Kremlin-installed leaders in Kherson want to join Russia, sidestepping a referendum
Videos in Spanish created by Kremlin outlets reappear on YouTube despite restrictions
An inauthentic network used a popular Twitter hashtag to spread pro-war narratives on Twitter in the first days of the Ukraine war
Russia falsely claims Ukraine ‘repeated’ the ‘Bucha provocation’ in Kharkiv
Reminder: Watch out for fake Telegram channels and a list of official Ukraine channels
Russia has a cadre of readied excuses to deny death benefits to dead soldiers’ families
Ukraine’s Military Created A Propaganda-Busting App That Tracks The Russian Soldier Death Toll In Real-Time
Russian propaganda falsely claims that disagreement is threatening to "split" Europe
Russia continues trying to provoke a fight between Ukraine and Poland, conspiracy theories included
Russian information operations instruct users to flood Ukrainian reporting bots with disinformation
Ukraine: Abduction of UK aid workers raises safety questions for humanitarian organizations
Microinfluencer behind #IStandWithRussia push set up network years before the invasion
Russians are conducting a large-scale "filtering" of Ukrainian citizens in the temporarily occupied or surrounded territories
Authorities censor documentary on Georgian oligarch
Vladimir Putin’s Historical Disinformation
Chinese state-controlled accounts mentioned Elon Musk over 175x since April 1st
Russian diplomats focused on gas, a conspiracy theory about Poland, and Transnistria
Documents related to “DHS Manipulated Report on Russian Election Interference, Watchdog Says”
China Information Operations Newsletter - May 4, 2022
Russia Creates Ukraine Disaster, Then Claims Credit For ‘Humanitarian’ Aid
Russian military may be able to eavesdrop on Ukrainian cell phone calls
Another level of Russian propaganda for Kosovo
COLDRIVER aka Callisto continues to use Gmail accounts to send credential phishing emails
DISINFO: Putin blames global food insecurity on sanctions, not his brutal war of choice
Faces of Kremlin propaganda: Vladimir Solovyov
Russian influence operation targeting EU commissioners for pursuing embargo on Russian oil
Russian influence operations targeting Ukrainian social media with demoralizing messages
Mariupol survivors share the horrors they experienced in a documentary
Mariupol Mayor says Russian soldiers force citizens to bury corpses in exchange for food
Lavrov says about Zelenskyy's Jewish heritage, "Hitler also had Jewish blood. That means absolutely nothing."
False Claim: The Chornobyl disaster was staged by the Americans
How Ukrainians saved their Capital
Pediatric Hepatitis Cases May Be Linked to Adenovirus, No Connection to COVID-19 Vaccination
'Ghost Of Kyiv' Was NOT Killed In Battle Or Identified -- Mythical Aviator 'Embodies The Collective Spirit' Of Ukrainian Pilots
No evidence that COVID-19 vaccines cause “fibrous lung clots”, contrary to the claim by Jane Ruby
No proof that Ukraine President Zelenskyy owns a $35 million home in Florida
Russia’s False Claims About Azovstal Evacuation
Erdogan, the Saudis, and Turkey’s Toy Judiciary
Case Studies in Response Options to Cyber Incidents Affecting U.S. Government Networks and Implications for Future Response
A Decade of Deceit: Examining over ten years of pro-Kremlin narratives from a single Twitter user
As support for Ukraine accelerates, key US senators explore the next moves to prevent a Russian victory
Putin Wants to Stage Referenda in All Russian Speaking Parts of Ukraine to Create People's Republics Loyal to Moscow that the West "Can’t Exploit"
April 30 - The Pentagon trains the Ukrainian military and the exchange of prisoners
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2022 June

Putin’s propaganda is rooted in Russian history – and that's why it works
The Polish Foreign Ministry received a fake letter from alleged colleagues from Ukraine
Pro-Kremlin media pits Germans against Ukrainians saying Germans did not like Zelenskyy's ultimatum to Scholz. 89% of Germans support Ukraine.
Beijing echoes Kremlin's disinformation on Ukraine
Pro-Kremlin media deflects blame for the coming famine, portraying Russia, Turkey, France, Germany, as do-gooders averting the crisis
Advisor to the mayor of Mariupol warns that Russians are preparing a “human shield”
Ukrainian intelligence obtain documents from FSB, detailing reasons for Russian propaganda failures
Polish-language Telegram channels spread anti-refugee narratives
US military hackers conducting offensive operations in support of Ukraine, says head of Cyber Command
Requests for U.S. Person Identities in Intelligence Reports During the 2016 Presidential-Election Period and the Ensuing Presidential-Transition Period
Kremlin Conjures Up Fake Postage Stamp to Spread Ukraine Antisemitism Smear
I watched hundreds of flat-Earth videos to learn how conspiracy theories spread – and what it could mean for fighting disinformation
Russian information operation publishes new series of memes to spread where the ‘ukrobots congregate’
The Security Service of Ukraine reported suspecting a "DNR judge" of sentencing foreign soldiers serving in Ukraine to death
Ukrainian State Special Communications on “flanking” and disinformation
Network of Fact-Checkers Unites to Stem Flow of Disinformation
Russian information operation publishes memes to spread where ‘ukrobots congregate’
Decrying Nazism – even when it's not there – has been Russia's 'Invade country for free' card
Understanding the Conflict in Ukraine—Forum voor Democratie

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