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The social media company’s widespread overhaul of its content moderation policies will have a real-world negative impact, embolden authoritarian regimes, and put its own users at risk By Mark Scott, for DFRLab On January 7, 2025, Meta announced a wholesale change to how the company polices harmful, illegal and divisive content on Facebook and Instagram. The […]

A real estate company that sold the villa in October denied any connection between the buyer and Ukraine and refuted claims that a bunker was being built on the property Russian sources have spread a story claiming that Volodymyr Zelensky, through a shell company Aldorante LTD, has purchased a luxurious villa on the French island […]

By EUvsDisinfo Every year, shortly before midnight on 31 December, Vladimir Putin tells Russians that better times lie ahead, everything is going to be all right and Russia has only grown stronger in the last few years. In reality, his full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches its third anniversary and the Russian economy is in serious trouble. Rather than the […]

The Los Angeles Fire Department made a small donation of unusable equipment back in March 2022. It contained helmets, gloves, boots, medicines — not the powerful machinery needed to fight a fire of this scale. American entrepreneur John LeFevre published an angry post on the social network X (Twitter), in which he implied that the […]

By Serhii Kuzan, for UkraineAlert With Donald Trump set to return to the White House in the coming weeks, speculation is mounting that Ukraine and Russia may soon begin serious peace negotiations. However, there is very little sign that Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to abandon his goal of subjugating Ukraine. Instead, the peace […]

The date on the screenshot circulating online is the result of a common technical glitch in Google search results when retrieving posts from Reddit. In reality, the photo was published on the site on December 26, 2024. Several pro-Russian sources claimed that the news about the Ukrainian military capturing the first North Korean soldier was […]

The main part of President Zelensky’s speech took place against the backdrop of the Mother Ukraine monument, which was illuminated in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. The monument was lit in the colors of flags of other countries when the President spoke about Ukraine’s allies during the war, including the United States. Russian media […]

By Joshua Stein, for UkraineAlert Russian President Vladimir Putin has been accused of antisemitism after claiming that “ethnic Jews” are seeking to “tear apart” the Russian Orthodox Church. The Russian leader’s controversial statements, which came during his annual end-of-year press conference in Moscow on December 19, were the latest in a series of similar outbursts since the […]

By EUvsDisinfo As Poland prepares to take on the presidency of the EU Council on 1 January 2025, it continues to face intense disinformation attacks from top-level Russian officials and pro-Kremlin outlets. Much of the Russian disinformation spread by the Polish edition of Pravda throughout 2024 can be summarised by three narratives. Firstly, Poland is […]

The Russian-Ukrainian war continues, and the Kremlin’s demand for propaganda efforts remains consistently high. The main mistake may be underestimating the power of propaganda and its significant impact on the moods within Ukraine, in Europe, and the world at large. Certain propaganda trends emerged as early as 2022-2023, and some have become noticeable today. Constantly […]

By EUvsDisinfo Russia’s war against Ukraine started in 2014 with the invasion and illegal annexation of Crimea. Russia engineered the war in Eastern Ukraine and later annexed parts of Donbas and other regions in South-east Ukraine against international laws. Soon, 4 000 days will have passed. Russia started the full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022, having fabricated a casus belli. The largest war in Europe since […]

StopFake is proud to announce Warsaw as our next stop! It’s an amazing opportunity to learn more about fake news, how to spot it and how to counter disinformation. This year, StopFake is celebrating its 10th anniversary. To celebrate, the famous Ukraine-based team of fact-checkers has teamed up with Google News Initiative to go on […]

StopFake is proud to announce Zagreb as our next stop! It’s an amazing opportunity to learn more about fake news, how to spot it and how to counter disinformation. This year, StopFake is celebrating its 10th anniversary. To celebrate, the famous Ukraine-based team of fact-checkers has teamed up with Google News Initiative to go on […]

By EUvsDisinfo The Kremlin continued its elections interference campaign in the US until the final moments, utilising the same playbook we have repeatedly uncovered. This week, in a striking demonstration of reality denial, we have witnessed pro-Kremlin sources pushing two contradictory narratives about North Korean troops in Kursk region: claiming they do not exist at all, while […]

StopFake is proud to announce Bratislava as our next stop! It’s an amazing opportunity to learn more about fake news, how to spot it and how to counter disinformation. This year, StopFake is celebrating its 10th anniversary. To celebrate, the famous Ukraine-based team of fact-checkers has teamed up with Google News Initiative to go on […]

StopFake is proud to announce Prague as our next stop! It’s an amazing opportunity to learn more about fake news, how to spot it and how to counter disinformation. This year, StopFake is celebrating its 10th anniversary. To celebrate, the famous Ukraine-based team of fact-checkers has teamed up with Google News Initiative to go on […]

By EUvsDisinfo With COP 29 approaching, Pro-Kremlin outlets’ climate coverage reveals a calculated strategy: acknowledge climate change while using it as a tool to attack Western policies. As Azerbaijan prepares to host the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 29), the Russian state-controlled and other pro-Kremlin outlets’ coverage of climate issues continues to follow a familiar pattern. […]

By EUvsDisinfo Over the last week, leaders and leaders-to-be around the world have appeared in public and some of their words about others deserve scrutiny. In Russia, where Vladimir Putin is the dominant figure in state-controlled outlets, the Kremlin keeps a schedule of keynote events where the master can set the party line straight and […]

By EUvsDisinfo Foreign actors are exploiting sensitive topics such as multicultural integration, women’s emancipation, and LGBTIQ+ rights to portray them as immoral and somehow detrimental to ‘traditional values’ in order to create social fractures and advance their geopolitical agendas through identity-based disinformation (IBD). IBD represents a sophisticated form of Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) that weaponises identity characteristics […]

The American channel Fox News did not publish graffiti with Volodymyr Zelensky kneeling. Moreover, the distributed image was most likely generated by artificial intelligence. This fake is part of the Russian propaganda narrative to discredit Ukraine in connection with the 2024 US presidential elections. Social networks and Russian websites are widely spreading information that graffiti […]