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Fri, Apr 3, 2020
Suspicious accounts spread COVID-19 disinfo in Armenian Facebook groups
Amid tensions with Azerbaijan, Facebook accounts
Sat, Mar 28, 2020
Pro-Kremlin media spins story of U.S. military transporting COVID-19 test swabs from Italy
Story claimed a U.S. logistics operation transporting coronavirus test swabs amounted to taking away tests from Italians
Tue, Mar 24, 2020
Storming the sauna: a ceasefire violation in the Donbas
Photos and video of an attack along the line of contact in the Donbas region of Ukraine provided a rare look at ceasefire violations
Tue, Mar 24, 2020
Italian anti-NATO coronavirus narrative recycled in Russia
Italian COVID-19 narrative critical of Defender Europe 20 NATO exercise spreads to Russian social media
Thu, Mar 19, 2020
Pro-right Italian media target African immigrants over coronavirus
As COVID-19 overwhelms Italy, nationalist media outlets see opportunity to fuel anti-immigrant sentiment
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
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
