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Search results for "russian disinformation"

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Facebook posts stated on July 18, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“American coronavirus vaccine killed five Ukrainians.”
By Tom Kertscher• July 30, 2020
X posts stated on October 31, 2024 in X posts:
A video shows Haitians showing duplicate IDs, claiming they are voting for Vice President Kamala Harris in multiple Georgia counties.
By Loreben Tuquero• November 1, 2024
Tweets stated on February 24, 2022 in a tweet:
Russia is targeting U.S. biological weapons labs in Ukraine invasion.
By Jeff Cercone• February 25, 2022
X posts stated on November 05, 2024 in an X post:
“CCTV captures the moment a Trump voter in (Wisconsin) is assaulted by two Kamala Harris thugs at a voting station.”
By Jeff Cercone• November 7, 2024
Instagram posts stated on July 01, 2024 in an Instagram post:
"President Zelenskyy’s wife orders 4 million dollar Bugatti” in Paris with U.S. tax money.
By Jeff Cercone• July 3, 2024
Facebook posts stated on March 20, 2022 in a Facebook post:
“Ukraine has been shooting residents of Donetsk and Lugansk just because they wanted to speak Russian.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• March 22, 2022
Bloggers stated on November 29, 2019 in an article:
Says the New York Times reported that Hillary Clinton and George Soros "paid (a) woman to accuse Trump of sexual attack."
By Daniel Funke• December 20, 2019
X posts stated on November 01, 2024 in a post:
Video shows the FBI reported that “three linked groups have been apprehended for rigging early voting by mail-in ballot.”
By Amy Sherman• November 3, 2024
Instagram posts stated on April 16, 2023 in an Instagram post:
Video shows Russian President Vladimir Putin talking in English about U.S. democracy.
By Samantha Putterman• April 18, 2023
TikTok posts stated on April 30, 2022 in a TikTok video:
Video shows former President Barack Obama sharing how to mislead the public.
By Jeff Cercone• August 18, 2022
JD Vance stated on February 19, 2022 in an interview with Steve Bannon:
Says Joe Biden risks war with Russia because Vladimir Putin doesn’t “believe in transgender rights."
By Jon Greenberg• February 21, 2022
Facebook posts stated on September 13, 2024 in a Facebook post:
Says Colin Kaepernick said he “will go to Russia if not properly respected in the United States.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• September 20, 2024
Elise Stefanik stated on February 09, 2023 in a Tweet:
53% of Americans made aware of the Hunter Biden laptop story would have changed their vote in 2020.
By Jill Terreri Ramos• February 25, 2023
Facebook posts stated on March 02, 2022 in a public Facebook post:
“Putin Vows to ‘Crush’ Child Traffickers in Ukraine”
By Luiz Romero• March 18, 2022
Bloggers stated on March 02, 2022 in a blog post:
“Putin bombs Biden-owned villa in Ukraine while hammering biolabs & pedophile rings.”
By Samantha Putterman• March 8, 2022
Russian Ministry of Defense stated on April 03, 2022 in a Telegram post:
A video taken from a car driving through Bucha, Ukraine, shows a corpse “moving his arm,” and then “in the rear view mirror the ‘corpse’ sits down.”
By Bill McCarthy• April 4, 2022
Viral image stated on September 07, 2024 in a Threads post:
Elon Musk said, “Anyone caught promoting propaganda will be suspended from X.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• September 12, 2024
Facebook posts stated on November 02, 2020 in a series of images and screenshots:
“If Biden wins the election, there are people out there planning on mass murdering poc and lbgtq+ people. Please stay inside during the election and a few days after.”
By Daniel Funke, Tom Kertscher• November 3, 2020
Tweets stated on March 13, 2022 in tweets:
A Ukrainian combat medic who died in February was seen in a video Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky posted of his visit to see wounded soldiers.
By Bill McCarthy• March 14, 2022
Patriot Voice stated on October 30, 2024 in an article on a website:
Vice President Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff received $500,000 for tipping off Sean “Diddy” Combs about police raids.
By Amy Sherman• November 2, 2024

Articles (564)

Fact-checking vaccine claims in alleged disinformation campaign by Russian intelligence

By Noah Y. Kim• March 9, 2021

What we know about 2020 election interference: It’s not just Russia

By Daniel Funke• September 25, 2020

Lie of the Year 2022: Putin’s lies to wage war and conceal horror in Ukraine

By Rebecca Catalanello, Louis Jacobson• December 13, 2022

Russian influence operations intensified ahead of Election Day. Officials expect it to continue.

By Loreben Tuquero• November 8, 2024

Ukraine war fuels surge of fake content impersonating BBC, CNN coverage

By Bill McCarthy• April 22, 2022

United Facts of America: How Russian falsehoods spread to U.S. through faux local news

By Loreben Tuquero• November 7, 2023

Ahead of face-to-face meeting, Biden and Putin remain far apart on the facts

By Jon Greenberg• June 14, 2021

Congress urges tech giants to fortify against foreign meddling before next election

By John Kruzel• November 3, 2017

Are foreign adversaries China and Russia amplifying hurricane misinformation? Early signs say yes

By Jeff Cercone• October 14, 2024

How facts and stories can shape democracy: An interview with journalist Anne Applebaum

By Hana Stepnick• June 27, 2022

How paid X accounts blamed Israel, Ukraine for the Baltimore bridge collapse

By Madison Czopek• April 3, 2024

A war of information: Both sides fight in the Ukraine-Russia conflict

By Samantha Putterman• March 18, 2022

Divisions in Cyprus amplify fact-checking challenges

By Louis Jacobson• December 19, 2023

How Elon Musk ditched Twitter's safeguards and primed X to spread misinformation

By Madison Czopek• October 23, 2023

Why Clinton disinformation resurfaced during Trump’s impeachment trial

By Daniel Funke• February 17, 2020

How ‘War on Fakes’ uses fact-checking to spread pro-Russia propaganda

By Luiz Romero• August 8, 2022

Don’t fall for these hoaxes about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

By Samantha Putterman• February 25, 2022

Four things to know about Russia's 2016 misinformation campaign

By Lauren Carroll• April 4, 2017

US officials say Iran sent the ‘Proud Boys’ email threats to voters

By Amy Sherman• October 22, 2020

The facts behind the Russian, right-wing narratives claiming Hunter Biden funded biolabs in Ukraine

By Bill McCarthy• April 1, 2022