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Fri, Mar 24, 2023
Russia-friendly media outlets in Global South frame French anti-government protest as anti-NATO
Russian state media coverage of protest in Paris picked up by outlets across the Global South
Wed, Feb 16, 2022
DFRLab releases Financing & genocide: Development finance and the crisis in the Uyghur Region
The DFRLab releases a joint investigation revealing how the World Bank’s private lending arm has several investments in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
by Digital Forensic Research Lab
Tue, Jun 16, 2020
DFRLab statement on Maria Ressa
The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab stands with Maria Ressa and Reynaldo Santos Jr.
Mon, Apr 6, 2020
Media outlets highlight Mexican president’s inadequate COVID-19 response
Criticism falls on President López Obrador
Tue, Mar 24, 2020
Venezuelan fringe websites impersonate media outlets on Facebook
Facebook assets impersonating CNN en Español and NTN24 promoted content created by two external websites
Mon, Mar 16, 2020
Right-wing Facebook pages fuel communal tensions in India
Three pages capitalized on cases of sexual violence to deepen Hindu-Muslim divide
Fri, Mar 13, 2020
Open-source analysis | Foreign instigators and local amplifiers: disinformation in Bosnia
The Balkans have made progress in tackling disinformation, but bad actors have grown more sophisticated
Wed, Mar 11, 2020
Maduro’s attempt to exploit coronavirus outbreak backfires on social media
Venezuela’s Maduro calls COVID-19 a biological weapon to attack China, leading to critique of condition of the country’s healthcare system
Fri, Mar 6, 2020
Rumors of a U.S. military intervention in Venezuela grow
Blogs and YouTube videos spread the rumor that Juan Guaidó gave the United States permission to intervene militarily in Venezuela
Thu, Mar 5, 2020
Tracking narratives around James Le Mesurier and the White Helmets
How conspiracies resurfaced and shifted after Le Mesurier’s death
Thu, Mar 5, 2020
Conspiracy theorist gets thousands of YouTube views spreading coronavirus rumors
UFO-obsessed Youtuber continued to publish misleading videos that targeted Latin America even after conspiracies were debunked
Sun, Feb 16, 2020
The South African information space: a legacy of disinformation from apartheid to 2020
Apartheid-era propaganda fomented media distrust, and more than 25 years into democracy, South Africa still struggles with the legacy
