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Mis/Disinformation Example | Date | Source Region | Themes | Category |
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Russian State Media Falsely Claims NATO and Israeli Weapons Supplied to Ukraine Are Being Used by Hamas Immediately after the start of the Hamas attack against Israel on October 8, posts began emerging on Russian social media channels falsely claiming that Western weapons supplied to Ukraine were... | 9 October 2023 | Russia | Hamas,Israel,Ukraine,Weapons | Conspiracy Theory,Disinformation,Foreign Propaganda,Misinformation |
Russian MFA Creates Fake Postage Stamp to Exploit Controversy in Canada’s Parliament On September 22, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Canada, where he gave a speech in Canada’s House of Commons and later in Toronto. The Ukrainian President’s visit and speech... | 2 October 2023 | Russia | Canada,Fake Image,Parliament,Ukraine,Zelenksy | Disinformation |
Cocaine on The PM’s Plane: False Accusations by Former Indian Diplomat On September 25, Indian television platform ZeeMedia published an interview with former Indian diplomat Deepak Vohra. In the interview, Vohra claimed that the plane that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau... | 29 September 2023 | India | Assassination,India,Sikh | Conspiracy Theory,Disinformation |
Sputnik News: Canada’s Reaction to India Diplomatic Trouble Is Being Directed by US Russian state media platform Sputnik News, has published a piece about the diplomatic conflict between Canada and India, surrounding the murder of a Canadian Sikh activist. On September 18th Canadian... | 21 September 2023 | Russia | Assassination,India,Sikh | Conspiracy Theory,Disinformation,Foreign Propaganda,Misinformation |
Russia State TV: Baltic and Other Former States Occupied by Soviets Are All “fake” During a segment on the Russian television channel Solovyev Live, the hosts stated that the nations that were freed from Soviet occupation after the collapse of the Soviet Union... | 21 September 2023 | Russia | Armenia,Azerbaijan,Baltic States,Estonia,Georgia,Latvia,Lithuania,Occupation Denial,Soviet Union,Ukraine | Disinformation,Foreign Propaganda |
Medvedev Claims Baltic States Are Russian “Provinces” On May 16, 2023, Former Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev falsely claimed on Twitter that the Baltic States – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – belong to Russia, referring to them as... | 18 May 2023 | Russia | Genocide Denial,History,Russian colonialism,Soviet | Disinformation,Foreign Propaganda |
Russian State Media Promotes Conspiracy Linking Truss Text Message to Nord Stream Explosion A tweet from exiled Finnish conspiracy theorist Kim Dot Com, suggesting that former British PM Liz Truss sent a text message “it’s done” to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken... | 1 November 2022 | Russia | Liz Truss,Nord Stream,phone hack,United Kingdom | Conspiracy Theory,Disinformation |
Russian Security Council Claims “de-satanization” of Ukraine Required An October 26, 2022 article published on the Russian state media platform TASS, claims that the Russian Security Council is focusing its operations on the “complete de-Satanization” of Ukraine. The... | 25 October 2022 | Russia | neo-Nazi,Putin,Satan,Ukraine | Conspiracy Theory,Disinformation |
Russian narrative claims President Zelensky Is Not In Kyiv & Filmed In Front ofGreen Screen During the initial weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian state media and its proxies claimed that Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky had fled Kyiv and that videos recorded of him... | 25 October 2022 | Unknown | Green Screen,Hologram,Zelensky | Conspiracy Theory,Disinformation |
Russian “Kill List” Narrative The Myrotvorets (“Peacemaker”) website is a privately run NGO website that according to the website, studies “signs of crimes against the national security of Ukraine, peace, security of mankind and... | 25 October 2022 | Canada | Intimidation,Whataboutism | Conspiracy Theory,Disinformation,Misinformation |