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| Mis/Disinformation Example | Date | Source Region | Themes | Category |
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| Chinese Government Vaccine Propaganda Shared on Canadian Chinese Community Forums Chinese state media and government-associated social media accounts have intensified their campaign to undermine public trust in western vaccines in late January 2021. The campaign coincides with the arrival of... | 5 February 2021 | China | China,COVID-19,Vaccination | Misinformation |
| Kremlin Engages in Whataboutism To Justify Mass Political Repression Whataboutism, the “practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counteraccusation or raising a different issue,” is a well-practiced tactic used by authoritarian regimes accused of... | 4 February 2021 | Russia | Russia,Russian Government,Whataboutism | Conspiracy Theory |
| Russian State Media Seeks To Polarize Canadians By Conflating COVID Lockdown Stress With Immigration A story published on Russian state media platform Sputnik conflates the economic stresses caused by COVID lockdowns with a non-existent Canadian “mass-immigration” program. The Sputnik article blatantly fabricates supposed connections... | 3 February 2021 | Russia | COVID-19,Russia,Sputnik,State Media | Disinformation |
| Chinese State Media Twitter Account Promotes Disinformation Suggesting COVID Vaccine Could Be Lethal The Twitter account belonging to a journalist-spokesman for the Chinese government media broadcaster, China Global Television Network (CGTN), Liu Xin, posted disinformation in a tweet about COVID vaccines that included... | 20 January 2021 | China | China,COVID-19,Pfizer,Vaccination | Disinformation |
| Chinese State Media Spreads Disinformation About COVID in Food Products A recent Tweet by Chinese state media platform, “People’s Daily” promoted a false narrative about COVID-19 being potentially transported in milk powder imported to China from New Zealand or whey... | 15 January 2021 | China | China,COVID-19 | Disinformation |
| 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 |
