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Debunker: 'Ukraine is preparing a dirty bomb'

WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: Russia claims that Ukraine is preparing a so-called ‘dirty bomb’, a conventional munition containing...

Debunker: 'The Russian media is free'

WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: One claim often made by pro-Kremlin media outlets is that ‘the mass media in Russia is free.’ They argue...

Debunker: 'Europe cannot cope without Russian gas'

WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: In response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the EU has imposed wide-ranging...

Debunker: 'Military aid prolongs the war in Ukraine'

WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: Throughout the Russia-Ukraine war, Kremlin propagandists have consistently promoted the disinformation...

Debunker: 'Military aid is being stolen in Ukraine'

WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: Since the full-scale Russian invasion, Ukraine has received military aid from a number of its...

Debunker: The 'Ukraine Nazi' disinformation narrative

WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: The 'Nazism' claim is frequently employed to target Ukraine with false accusations that the country and...

Debunker: 'The West is preparing for WWIII'

WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: Since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, Kremlin propagandists have promoted the...

Debunker: 'Ukraine is losing the war'

WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Kremlin propagandists have sought to...

Debunker: 'The EU is controlled by the US'

WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: Russian propagandists have sought to promote the disinformation narrative that ‘the EU is controlled by...

Debunker: 'NATO threatens Russia on its borders'

WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: Kremlin officials, propagandists, pro-Kremlin media are systematically spreading a narrative that ‘NATO...

Contrived risk of military escalation pushed by pro-Putin propagandists

The possibility of the war expanding beyond Ukraine’s borders has received modest attention from Kremlin propagandists. This type of...

Rabbit Holes and Echo Chambers: Experimenting with YouTube

Between Summer 2021 and Fall 2022, Debunk.org’s researchers conducted a series of experiments on disinformation and popular social media....

How Kremlin propagandists have used Soviet monument demolitions to spin claims of 'Russophobia'

The condition of Russian speakers or minorities abroad has been a marginal topic outside of the Russian-language disinformation outlets...

Over a third of Kremlin war propaganda has centred on battlefield developments

Events on the Russia-Ukraine front line accounted for 36% of all war-related disinformation. A significant portion of the narratives...

Kremlin propaganda takes aim at Western military aid for Ukraine

Disinformation related to military aid has been more prevalent in Ukraine than the countries that provide it. Pro-Russian Telegram...

Pro-Kremlin disinformation targeting Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

In Lithuania and the Russian-language segment of Baltic media, anti-sanctions messaging has been particularly strong due to the...

COVID-19 Sceptics Turn to Pro-Kremlin Propaganda About the Russia-Ukraine War

Even though feelings of urgency about the COVID-19 pandemic have decreased in recent months, misleading and false claims about the virus...

90 percent of analysed content share negative sentiment about 'Serbian World'

Only 1 out of 10 analyzed media content pieces shared positive or neutral sentiment about the concept of Serbian World. The majority of...

In Kremlin’s spider web - social media analysis of the migrant crisis disinformation on Facebook

Comprehensive analysis of the networks of profiles, pages, and groups on social media has shown that Facebook pages and groups, which...

40 percent of content published about the census in Montenegro was misleading

The strongest opponents of intention to organize the census in Montenegro last year were representatives of the opposition (declaring...