Security
Fri, Mar 6, 2020
Coronavirus used to stoke fear of NATO exercise in Europe
Anti-NATO activists claim NATO troops will spread COVID-19 as a result of the ongoing exercise
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
Wed, Feb 19, 2020
Early-morning flare-up in Luhansk
The DFRLab analyzed imagery from intense fighting on the morning of February 18,2020
Fri, Feb 14, 2020
The threat to civilian life five years after Minsk II
Artillery fire in Luhansk Oblast continued to take its toll on local civilians
Wed, Feb 12, 2020
Iran, Russia, and the Taliban exploited informational void in U.S. military plane crash
After a U.S. Bombardier E-11A aircraft crashed in Afghanistan, Iranian, Russian, and pro-Taliban entities amplified unverified information
Fri, Feb 7, 2020
U.S.-Russian troop stand-off in northeastern Syria
U.S. troops denied a Russian patrol access to a town in northeastern Syria, far from Assad regime territory
Wed, Feb 5, 2020
Russian companies continue to expropriate Ukraine’s natural resources illegally
Open-source imagery reveals illicit cargo rail traffic at Russian-Ukrainian border crossings
Fri, Jan 17, 2020
Russian media pushed U.S. drone conspiracy related to plane crash in Iran
The unfounded theory blamed a U.S. drone strike for downing the Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 near Tehran
Mon, Jan 13, 2020
Denial, denial, confession: Iran could not avoid the truth about flight PS752
For 72 hours, Iranian government and media stuck with the same talking points about the crash until the evidence overwhelmed them
Sat, Jan 4, 2020
Tensions escalate on social media platforms after Soleimani’s death
Content targeting the United States government surfaced on Instagram and Twitter following the death of Qasem Soleimani
Wed, Dec 4, 2019
Russians in northern Syria after partial U.S. withdrawal
Images confirm U.S. troop withdrawal from northern Syria, Russian movement into the region, and U.S. presence at oil fields
