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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
Russian State Media Outlet Promotes False Soviet Historical Narratives
  “Russia Beyond The Headlines” is a Russian state controlled English language platform that promotes Russian government narratives and soft-power propaganda. The platform occasionally purchases supplemental space in Western newspapers,...
 4 August 2021Russia,,,,,,,Disinformation,State Soft Power Narrative
COVID Vaccines Do Not Contain Graphene Oxide
A report published by a Spanish professor claims that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine contains a substance called graphene oxide. Pfizer has stated that their vaccines do not contain any of this...
 30 July 2021Asia,,,,,,,Conspiracy Theory,Disinformation
China’s Occupation of Tibet Was Undertaken by Force, Not “Agreement”
A recent CBC News report about the anniversary of the Chinese government’s occupation of Tibet included a misleading sub-headline about how the Chinese government came to occupy Tibet. The sub-headline...
 27 July 2021Canada,Misinformation,State Soft Power Narrative
Queen Elizabeth II Was Not Forced to Choose Canada’s New Governor General
  A report published in June by an online platform identified as the “Buffalo Chronicle” claimed that Queen Elizabeth II was “‘forced’ to select Canada’s next Governor-General because Prime Minister...
 26 July 2021United States,,,,Disinformation,Misinformation
Cuban Food-Shortage Protests Are Not “Western Colour Revolutions”
Cuban officials claim that Western governments are responsible for inciting protests that have spontaneously erupted in Cuba over the past weeks. These claims have been published and amplified on Russian...
 22 July 2021Russia,,,Disinformation
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 2021Russia,,,,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 2021Russia,,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 2021Russia,,,,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 2021Russia,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 2021China,Disinformation,State Soft Power Narrative
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