On the 25th of October the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) published on Twitter a 10 minutes video allegedly debunking the Western disinformation about the massacres in Bucha, Izyum and Kupjansk, in Ukraine.
This short article by Samuel Cipers and Trisha Meyer reviews how platforms have taken action to counter online disinformation in Belgium and Luxembourg.
This article was originally published on Correctiv.org, in German, on September 21st, 2022.
The border-crossing conspiracy theory on “chromatic change”: why comparisons of weather maps that allegedly exaggerate temperatures with color red are misleading
Organizations of the EDMO’s fact-checking network that contributed to this analysis: Pagella Politica – Facta.news, 15min, AFP, Correctiv, DPA, EFE Verifica, Factcheck Vlaanderen, Knack, Maldita, Newtral, Nieuwscheckers, Polígrafo, Re:Baltica, Science Feedback, Verificat, VerificaRTVE
This article is an abridged version of an analysis of Demagog, available here in Polish. Organizations that contributed to this analysis: Correctiv, Maldita, PagellaPolitica/Facta.
An analysis of the EDMO fact-checking network. Organizations that contributed to this analysis: PagellaPolitica/Facta, Delfi, Eesti Päevaleht, Proveri-AFP, Re:Baltica
This article has been originally published on Facta News the 2nd of May 2022.
An analysis of 225 Dutch-speaking far-right and conspiracists Telegram public channels, some of them based in Belgium, shows the porosity between disinformation linked to the Covid-19 pandemic and pro-Russian war propaganda.
This article is the English translation of the originals “Loyale kanalen: hoe Rusland via een omweg het Nederlandse publiek bereikt”, published on Nieuwscheckers the 14th of April 2022
An analysis of the EDMO fact-checking network. Organizations that contributed to this analysis: Correctiv, Maldita.es
This article has been originally published on the Polish fact-checking project Demagog, part of the EDMO network, on April 4, 2022.
An analysis of the EDMO fact-checking network. Organizations that contributed to this analysis: AFP, Correctiv, Demagog, Maldita, Mimikama, PagellaPolitica/Facta, Verificat, and TjekDet.
From spreading falsehoods like “COVID-19 does not exist” or “vaccines carry killer chips”, some bad actors have turned quasi automatically to a full-hearted defense of the Russian attack on Ukraine based on disinformation. The largest Telegram pandemic conspiracy groups now defend Putin and his invasion. And they do so with hoaxes. At Maldita.es we are going to tell you how 10 of the most followed channels do it, all of them within 9,000 to 240,000 followers.
Since February 24, 2022, when Russia started its military attack against Ukraine, disinformation about the ongoing conflict started to grow all over Europe (and beyond).