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DisinfoWatch’s database of COVID related misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, hoaxes and foreign propaganda. We use various tools to monitor and collect examples, which we then analyze and publish. By default, examples are sorted by date. RSS feed here.



Mis/Disinformation ExampleDateSource RegionThemesCategory
RT & Tucker Carlson Target Canada’s Sovereignty, Urging US Sponsored Regime Change
RT’s Twitter account has published an edited version of a Tucker Carlson video that suggests that the United States should use force to influence Canada a change in Canada’s government,...
 6 April 2026United States,,,,,,,Disinformation,Foreign Propaganda,Misinformation
Orban spokesperson Recycles Oligarch SLAPP to Smear Journalist Catherine Belton
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Secretary of State for International Communication and international spokesman, Zoltán Kovács, is manipulating and misrepresenting the facts of a 2021 lawsuit brought by sanctioned Russian...
 29 March 2026Europe,,,,,,,Conspiracy Theory,Disinformation,Election,Misinformation
Chinese Embassy in Canada Exploits Michael Ma comments to deny forced-labour
A Twitter/X post published on the official account of the Chinese Embassy in Canada exploits Liberal MP Michael Ma’s questioning the use of forced labour to build Chinese electric vehicles...
 28 March 2026China,,,,,,,,,,Disinformation,Foreign Propaganda
Kremlin-linked X cluster targets Estonia’s sovereignty and Kaja Kallas
Several Kremlin-aligned accounts are pushing a neo-imperialist narrative built on historical manipulation, falsification, and a blatantly misogynistic attack on Kaja Kallas. The campaign follows a familiar Kremlin script: twist Kallas’s...
 28 March 2026Russia,,,,,,,,Disinformation
False insinuation Pravda News: U.S. could “take” rare earth processing from Canada’s Neo Performance Materials in Estonia
Russia’s Pravda News Network, citing an Izvestia article, mis-quotes Estonia’s Minister of Foreign affairs and falsely insinuates that a Canadian owned rare earth mineral processing plant in Estonia could be...
 18 February 2026Russia,,,,Disinformation,Misinformation
Moscow to MAGA: Pro-Kremlin Pravda Network Amplifying Alberta Separatism
The Pravda News Network has been identified by France’s Viginum, as the distribution platform for the Russian “Portal Kombat” disinformation operation.  The claims in this post are anchored in current...
 2 February 2026Unknown,,,,,Disinformation,Domestic Interference,Foreign Propaganda,Misinformation
Kremlin Claims Russia and US won’t talk to EU
This RT item is classic Kremlin narrative-shaping: it uses Peskov’s insults to portray EU leadership—specifically EU High Representative Kaja Kallas—as unserious and “unworthy” of talks, while asserting the US will also shun...
 26 January 2026Russia,,,,Disinformation,Misinformation
Russian Pravda News Platform Amplifying Alberta Secessionist Events
  Russia’s Pravda News Network has published what appears to be an AI generated video promoting an Alberta secessionist rally schedule for Monday, January 26, on its Russian VK social...
 26 January 2026Russia,,,,,Domestic Interference
Bannon claims Canada is “hostile” to the United States and “Hemispheric Defence”
In a recent podcast, close Trump associate, Steve Bannon suggested that Canada is both a threat and a “ vital national security interest” to the United States and “these people...
 18 January 2026United States,,,,,,,Deep Threats & Fearmongering,Foreign Propaganda
RT falsely claims “CANADA WILL DECLARE WAR ON USA FOR GREENLAND — CARNEY”
A Twitter/X post on Russian state platform RT, twists Canadian PM Mark Carney’s remarks about supporting Danish/Greenland sovereignty within NATO into a false war declaration. Multiple independent records show Carney...
 17 January 2026Russia,,,,,,Conspiracy Theory,Disinformation,Foreign Propaganda,Hoax,Misinformation
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