DATABASE

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
No Evidence that COVID Was Present First in North America
A December 2, 2020 report on Russian state-media platform RT includes a misleading claim that COVID-19 was present in the United States before China, based on a paper about serologic...
 3 December 2020Russia,,,Conspiracy Theory,Disinformation
Kremlin Aligned Prankster-Propagandists Target Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau
  A team of well known Kremlin supported “pranksters” recently published audio of a call with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The two “comedians,” Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov, who are known...
 27 November 2020Russia,,Hoax,Misinformation
Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Did Not Recommend Holding Breath As A COVID Response
A screenshot of a Canadian national news broadcast contains text suggesting that Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer has told Canadians to “practice holding their breath for extended periods of time”...
 17 November 2020Unknown,Disinformation,Hoax
Electronic Ballot Counting Equipment Has Never Been Used In Canada’s Federal Elections
A widely shared meme on Facebook states that “glitchy” electronic voting systems were used in Canada’s Federal Election. The meme seems to cast doubt on the outcome of that election....
 13 November 2020Unknown,,,Conspiracy Theory,Disinformation
Sesame Street Characters Are Not “Brainwashing” Children About COVID-19
A post published on a well-known Canadian conspiracy theory website claims that Sesame Street characters have been co-opted to engage in “‘New Normal’ brainwashing for the very young and vulnerable”...
 12 November 2020Canada,,,Conspiracy Theory
Blue Surgical Face Masks Do Not Cause Cancer
Several posts claiming that blue-coloured surgical masks contain carcinogenic materials have been shared widely on social media. The posts claim that blue surgical face masks are sprayed with Teflon, which...
 2 November 2020United States,,Conspiracy Theory,Disinformation,Misinformation
“Leaked” Liberal Insider COVID “Roadmap” Letter is Inauthentic
A website called The Canadian Report, has posted a letter that it claims was leaked by a member of the Liberal Party’s Strategic Planning Committee. The article has been exposed...
 21 October 2020Canada,Disinformation,Hoax
Ontario is not building COVID isolation internment camps
An independent Member of Ontario’s Provincial Parliament, Randy Hillier, has suggested that the Canadian federal government is planning to convert COVID-19 quarantine sites into internment camps or prisons in order...
 21 October 2020Canada,,,Conspiracy Theory,Misinformation
Chinese Troops Are Not Stationed in Vancouver’s Stanley Park in Advance of A Mass Invasion
A US-based website posted a dangerously bizarre claim on October 8, 2020, that “tens of thousands” of Chinese troops are massing in British Columbia and Vancouver’s Stanley Park, in advance...
 9 October 2020United States,Conspiracy Theory,Disinformation
500 German Doctors Claim they “have a lot of evidence that it’s a fake story all over the world””
A US-based website, Collective Evolution, recently published a post claiming that a group of 500 German doctors – identified as the “Corona Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry Committee” – have labelled COVID-19 a...
 7 October 2020Canada,Conspiracy Theory,Misinformation
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