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| Mis/Disinformation Example | Date | Source Region | Themes | Category |
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| Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Claims Western Students Taught That Jesus Christ is Bi-Sexual Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, recently wrote a long-winded opinion piece published on the Russian Foreign Ministry website in which he claimed that “in a number of Western... | 10 July 2021 | Russia | Chechnya,LGBTQ,Russian Orthodox Church,Sergei Lavrov,Xenophobia | Disinformation,State Soft Power Narrative |
| Western Governments Are Not Plotting a Coup in Belarus Ongoing Russian and Belarusian disinformation narratives suggest that western governments are working to organize a coup to overthrow the Lukashenka regime. Such narratives are promoted by the regime and the... | 9 July 2021 | Russia | Belarus,Russia,Sputnik | Disinformation |
| Kremlin Bans Historical Truth About Stalin-Hitler Pact On July 1 of this year, Vladimir Putin signed a law that bans comparisons of The Soviet Union with Nazi Germany, which includes any denials of the Kremlin’s official view... | 8 July 2021 | Russia | History,Russia,Russian Government,Stalin,Victory Day | Disinformation |
| A Kremlin Manufactured Naval “Incident” In The Black Sea? The Kremlin’s state media platform RT claimed that a British naval destroyer, HMS Defender, entered Russian territorial waters near the illegally occupied Crimean peninsula without authorization on June 23, 2021.... | 23 June 2021 | Russia | Russian Government,Ukraine | Disinformation |
| Chinese Government Mocks and Leverages Residential School Deaths For Propaganda Chinese government state media platform, Xinhua, published and shared a crude children’s cartoon, leveraging the grim discovery of bodies at a former Kamloops residential school for propagandistic purposes on social... | 4 June 2021 | China | PRC,Whataboutism | Disinformation,State Soft Power Narrative |
| Gaza Crisis Photographic Disinformation The recent outbreak of violence in Gaza and Israel has been accompanied by a significant increase in disinformation about the conflict on social media. Photos falsely claiming to depict images... | 13 May 2021 | Unknown | Gaza,Israel | Disinformation |
| Russian Embassy in Canada Promotes Vaccine Disinformation The Russian government’s compatriot program has published false information about the Pfizer vaccine, intended to sow doubts about it and provoke vaccine hesitancy on the website of the Russian Embassy... | 11 May 2021 | Canada | Anti-Vaxx,COVID-19,Russia,Russian Embassy,Russian Government,Sputnik,Vaccination | Disinformation,State Soft Power Narrative |
| Social Media Posts About Canadian 2021 Census Could Provoke Census “Hesitancy” Some Canadian social media users have taken to social media to protest Canada’s 2021 census that could lead to broader census “hesitancy”. Recent posts question the privacy of the questionnaire... | 10 May 2021 | Canada | Census | Misinformation |
| COVID-19 Vaccines Do Not Make Unvaccinated People Sick nor Are They Bioweapons A report published on a Canadian conspiracy theory website Global Research, which has been identified by the US State Department as part of the Russian government’s “disinformation and propaganda ecosystem,”... | 29 April 2021 | Canada | Anti-Vaxx,Biological Weapon,COVID-19,Vaccination | Conspiracy Theory,Disinformation |
| Canada’s COVID Travel Protocols Do Not Violate Human Rights During a recent segment on US Fox News, anchor and commentator Tucker Carlson claimed that Canada “took a dramatic move towards legitimately dangerous authoritiarianism.” Carlson is an extremely popular... | 1 April 2021 | United States | Trudeau | Misinformation |
