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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| “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 2020 | Canada | anti-mask,COVID-19 | 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 2020 | Canada | anti-mask,Anti-Vaxx,COVID-19,Denial | 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 2020 | United States | China,Qanon | 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 2020 | Canada | COVID-19,Fake Virus | Conspiracy Theory,Misinformation |
| Germany did not pay Bill Gates €600 million to facilitate (commit) an act of terrorism against Canada A recent Twitter post claims that a commitment made by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in January to donate “600 million Euros for global vaccine efforts” to the Gavi International Vaccine... | 30 September 2020 | Canada | Big Pharma,Bill Gates,Biological Weapon,Bioterror,COVID-19,Vaccination | Conspiracy Theory |
| Wearing Masks in Canada is Not Illegal According to AFP Fact Check, recent posts on social media falsely claim that Canadian COVID-19 protocols are now illegal. An organization calling itself the National Council of Common Law Assemblies... | 22 September 2020 | Canada | anti-mask,COVID-19 | Disinformation,Misinformation |
| Camels Cannot Contract Coronvirus An African website, Piga Firimbi, reported that a Twitter post suggested that camels are contracting COVID-19. The translation of the Tweet that was originally written in Swahili translates to “Have... | 14 September 2020 | Kenya | Animals,COVID-19 | Misinformation |
| Pro-Kremlin Groups Promote Anti-Mask Rally in Montreal A Canadian pro-Kremlin Russian language Facebook group promoted an anti-mask rally that was organized in Montreal on September 13, 2020. Russian flags were photographed at the rally by CBC journalists.... | 14 September 2020 | Canada | COVID-19,Denial,Qanon,Russia | Astroturf,Conspiracy Theory |
| U of Waterloo Professor: COVID is a Fake Emergency The CBC reports that a University of Waterloo professor has reinforced conspiracy theories about a “COVID fake emergency”, in a recently published Fall 2020 syllabus document. According to the... | 14 September 2020 | Canada | COVID-19,Denial | Conspiracy Theory,Misinformation |
| Toronto Children’s Hospital Says Masks Aren’t Required for Returning School Kids Global Research, a Montreal based conspiracy theory website that has been identified by the US State Department as an outlet “that Russia has used or directed to spread propaganda on... | 6 September 2020 | Canada | Children,COVID-19,Schools | Misinformation |
