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.
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| Mis/Disinformation Example | Date | Source Region | Themes | Category |
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| Misinformation About COVID-19 Promoted By Ontario MPP On Friday, January 15, 2021, an Ontario Conservative MPP Roman Baber published a letter to Ontario Conservative Premier Doug Ford, in which he claimed that “lockdowns are deadlier than Covid.”... | 15 January 2021 | Canada | COVID-19 | Misinformation |
| NATO is Not Preparing to Invade Crimea, Russia or Ukraine A story on Russian state media channel RT claimed in its headline that the “US & NATO preparing for ‘invasion’ of Crimea.” The Deputy Speaker of the Kremlin’s Crimean parliament,... | 4 January 2021 | Russia | NATO,Russia,Russian Government,Ukraine | Disinformation |
| The Canadian Armed Forces Are Not Engaging in Forced Vaccinations A video of a Canadian Forces Reservist who has called on colleagues to refuse participation in the distribution of COVID vaccines is being circulated on Russian-language Facebook groups. The post... | 21 December 2020 | Unknown | Anti-Vaxx,COVID-19,Russia,Vaccination | Conspiracy Theory,Disinformation |
| Dominion Voting Systems Were Not Compromised by The Russian SolarWinds Orion Hack Several stories are being shared on social media that suggest that the outcome of the U.S. presidential election may been affected in jurisdictions that use Dominion Voting ballot counting machines... | 19 December 2020 | Unknown | Dominion Voting,Elections,Hacking,Russia | Conspiracy Theory,Disinformation |
| Russian State Media Accuses Canadian Intelligence of “Madness” and “Russia Blaming” Russian state media has dismissed warnings issued by Canada’s CSIS federal intelligence agency about Russian, Chinese and Iranian disinformation about COVID as “madness” and “False claims in blame Russia-fashion.”... | 17 December 2020 | Canada | CSIS,Russia,Russian Government,Russophobia | Disinformation,Misinformation |
| NATO is Not Militarizing Space, But The Kremlin Is Russian state media have reported last year that Vladimir Putin is against the militarization of space and have, without offering any evidence, blamed NATO for the militarization of it. However,... | 17 December 2020 | Russia | Disinformation,State Soft Power Narrative | |
| COVID Vaccines Do Not Contain Aborted Fetal Tissue A video recently shared on Facebook and other social media platforms is being de-contextualized with the suggestion that AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccines contain cells from aborted fetuses. Videos containing similar claims... | 14 December 2020 | Unknown | Anti-Vaxx,COVID-19,Vaccination | Conspiracy Theory,Misinformation |
| Viral Facebook Video Promotes False Claims About COVID A Facebook video that has been shared over 46k times contains a number of individuals, identifying themselves as doctors, who support or make false statements about COVID-19. The video has... | 12 December 2020 | Canada | Anti-Vaxx,Big Pharma,COVID-19,Deep state,Denial,Fake Virus,Vaccination | Conspiracy Theory,Disinformation |
| Russian language is not banned from Ukrainian stores and restaurants An article that is being shared on Canadian Russian social media pages makes the false claim that Russian language service is being banned from all Ukrainian stores and restaurants in... | 3 December 2020 | Russia | Russia,Ukraine | Disinformation |
| 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 2020 | Russia | China,COVID-19,Russia,Virus Origin | Conspiracy Theory,Disinformation |
