Content

Fri, Oct 11, 2019

Sorting fact from fiction in Tunisia’s presidential election

As Tunisia approaches its presidential runoff, truth and lies are hard to separate in the country’s information space

Elections Government

Thu, Oct 10, 2019

Facebook takes down pro-Indonesian pages targeting West Papua

Removed pages masked themselves as West Papuan pages while promoting Indonesian state interests

by Alyssa Kann

Government Indonesia

Wed, Oct 9, 2019

U.S. impeachment heats up in Ukraine and Russia

U.S., Ukrainian, and pro-Kremlin Russian outlets all covered the phone call from differing angles

Government

Mon, Oct 7, 2019

Kremlin disinformation mill targets Poland

After World War II commemoration snub, the Kremlin doubled down on false narratives

Government

Wed, Oct 2, 2019

Facebook and Twitter remove accounts connected to Spanish political party

Social platforms connected the assets to the conservative Partido Popular

Government Social Media

Thu, Sep 26, 2019

Dueling Kashmir narratives on social media, part 2: India

Indian and Pakistani users amplified misleading content on social media in the wake of Kashmir digital blackout

by Ayushman Kaul

Government Social Media

Thu, Sep 26, 2019

Dueling Kashmir narratives on social media, part 1: Pakistan

Indian and Pakistani users amplified misleading content on social media in the wake of Kashmir’s digital blackout

by Ayushman Kaul

Government Social Media

Wed, Sep 25, 2019

Telegram channels used to doxx and report Hong Kong protesters to Chinese authorities

Channels are collecting and submitting personally identifiable information of Hong Kong protesters to China’s Ministry of StateSecurity

Government Hong Kong

Tue, Sep 24, 2019

Disinfo bingo: The 4 Ds of disinformation in the Moscow protests

Applying the 4 Ds of disinformation formula to assess the Kremlin’s propaganda surrounding the Moscow protests

by Lukas Andriukaitis

Elections Government

Mon, Sep 23, 2019

Family separation: the Kremlin’s latest anti-protest strategy

Russian authorities presented trumped up child endangerment charges against two families it claimed were involved in the protests

by Givi Gigitashvili

Elections Government

Mon, Sep 23, 2019

The Kremlin’s search for scapegoats amid Moscow protests

To discredit the pro-democracy protests gripping Moscow, the Kremlin claimed they were an outside job

by Givi Gigitashvili

Elections Government

Wed, Sep 18, 2019

Macron’s Amazon fire backlash

After posting an old photo of the Amazon fires, Macron triggered a sudden Twitter backlash

by Luiza Bandeira, Lukas Andriukaitis

Government Social Media