Disinfo Dispatch
Will Smith Slapped Chris Rock and QAnon Is Starting Conspiracies About It
Conspiracy theorists immediately dismissed the smack as fake, designed to distract the world from the “real horrors” of Hollywood actors trafficking children and drinking their blood.
Russia Was Losing the Information War. Then Fox News Stepped in.
A conspiracy theory about U.S.-supported biolabs in Ukraine originated here, but it’s helping Russia turn the tide.
Meet the Secretive US Company Building an ‘Unbreakable’ Internet Inside Russia
Backed with funding from the U.S. government, Lantern has spent two years building a peer-to-peer network inside Russia.
The JFK QAnon Cult Is Finally Collapsing: ‘Shit’s Falling Apart’
Their latest conspiracy is that the Ukraine war is part of a plan to replace Joe Biden with JFK, who is disguised as former president Donald Trump.
TikTok’s Censorship in Russia Is Giving Putin Exactly What He Wants
Russian citizens are now left with access to a very different version of the internet than the rest of the world.
Russian State TV Has Found a New Home on Gab
Days after YouTube kicked Kremlin-backed Russia Today off its platform, the propaganda network found a new home on the far-right social network.
QAnon Thinks Trump Says ‘Chy-na’ to Send a Secret Message About Ukraine
QAnon followers believe they have uncovered some sort of high-level secret code. They have not uncovered some sort of high-level secret code.
Millions of Leftists Are Reposting Kremlin Misinformation by Mistake
A Kremlin-backed media outlet masquerading as a left-wing news source has been racking up likes and shares on its posts about Ukraine.
Russia Can Now Jail People for 15 Years for Tweeting About the War on Ukraine
The new ban on “fake information” targets the press, but it's so broad that it can also be applied to citizens and their social media posts.
Here’s Why QAnon Believes Vladimir Putin Is the Good Guy
“Putin is straight gangsta,” one prominent QAnon influencer wrote in the wake of Russia’s invasion. “Mainstream media is totally losing their minds right now.”
QAnon Surfer Who Killed His Kids Believed He Was Neo From ‘The Matrix’
“So many crazy thoughts going through my head right now, hard to explain,” Matthew Coleman told his wife, hours before killing their two children.
How a Ukrainian Face-Swapping App Beat Russian Disinformation
Reface, which is based in Kyiv, is sending push alerts telling users what’s really happening in Ukraine.