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| Mis/Disinformation Example | Date | Source Region | Themes | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Jones “Canada Death-State” Conspiracy Promotes MAiD Panic US based conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has posted a video that appears to build on one still-uncorroborated viral case involving Nicholas Jordan Wagter, then leaps to sweeping claims that Canadian... | 28 May 2026 | United States | Alberta,Canada,Carney,Conspiracy,Maid,Mental Health,Orwell | Conspiracy Theory,Disinformation |
| Russia’s “Merchant of Death” Threatens Nuclear War Against NATO on Alex Jones Show US far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has lent his platform to convicted Russian arms trafficker, Viktor Bout (also known as the “Merchant of Death), to threaten that Putin is preparing... | 28 May 2026 | Russia | Merchant of Death,NATO,Nuclear war,Russia,Russia as victim,Ukraine,Viktor Bout | Disinformation,Foreign Propaganda |
| Russia has no “right” to attack NATO or Ukraine A post by a RT commentator Glenn Diesen falsely claims that Russia has a right to attack NATO. This narrative fits a recurring Kremlin-aligned one that portrays NATO as the... | 18 May 2026 | Europe | Drone,Latvia,RIAC,Russia as victim,Ukraine,Valdai Club,War | Uncategorized |
| 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 2026 | United States | 51st State,Alberta,Annexation,MAGA,RT,Secession,Separation,Tucker Carlson | 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 2026 | Europe | Abramovich,Fidesz,Hungary,Oligarch,Orban,Putin,Transnational Repression,Washington Post | 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 2026 | China | Canada,Cars,China,EV,Force labour,Liberal,Michael MA,Parliament,Slavery,Uyghur,Xinjiang | 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 2026 | Russia | Colonization,Donbas,Donetsk,EEAS,Estonia,Imperialism,Kaja Kallas,Medvedev,Misogyny | 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 2026 | Russia | Canada,Estonia,Neo Performance Materials,Rare earth minerals,USA | 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 2026 | Unknown | Alberta,MAGA,Pravda News Network,seccesion,Separatist,Telegram | 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 2026 | Russia | EU,Kaja Kallas,Misogyny,Ukraine,United States | Disinformation,Misinformation |