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QAnon and the rabbit hole election
What impact will the QAnon conspiracy theory have on the upcoming US election?
Disinfo wars and the all-American ‘troll farm’
An American writer was roped into a Russian disinformation campaign.
Help! My mum is a conspiracy influencer
What would you do if one day your mum became a conspiracy theory influencer?
Sex, monks and video fakes
How Cambodia’s top human rights activist was driven into exile by a state smear campaign.
How to be a social media star… without the internet
What’s it like chasing online fame in one of the least connected places on earth?
Doxxed and hacked In Hong Kong
Who’s behind the shady tactics targeting pro-democracy activists online?
The roots of Donald Trump’s ‘voter fraud’ strategy
What’s the real story behind allegations of fraud during the US presidential election?
The truth behind a ‘woke’ Instagram network
Instagram accounts pledging to do good via “brand ambassadors†aren’t all that they seem.
Votes, viruses, victims: 2020 in disinformation
This year we debunked dozens of online rumours and fake news stories. What happened next?
The Anti-Vax Files
How anti-vax went viral
How did the anti-vaccine movement explode online during the course of the pandemic?
France’s misinformation fight
Meet the people behind a disinformation battle raging in France.
South Africa's imported 'infodemic'
Meet the female scientists battling misinformation and online propaganda.
Targeting Germany’s youth
Germany’s Querdenken movement opposes vaccines. Now it’s recruiting children.
One woman’s escape from the rabbit hole
How Catherine fell for conspiracy theories - until she turned her scepticism around.
The rise of India’s ‘Covid quack’
India is struggling with Covid – and one man’s dodgy ideas aren’t helping.
Brazil’s bubble of bad information
Why are some Brazilians unable to check information they receive via chat apps?
Vaccine heroes fight back
The pandemic isn’t over – but there are signs that science is beating anti-vaccine lies.
The anti-vax influencer plot that flopped
Who is behind a secret plot to pay social media stars to falsely discredit Covid vaccines?
The TikTok news revolution
Why are more people getting their news from an app best known for dance videos?
Anti-vaxxers only
The Covid activists who are trying to live and love only with other unvaccinated people.
Who is TikTok’s masked vigilante?
Think you’re safe being an anonymous TikTok troll? Meet your worst nightmare.
Nesara: The financial fantasy ruining lives
The growing popularity of a conspiracy theory that predicts all debt will be cancelled.
The cops weaponising copyright
Could your favourite song be used to cover up the misdeeds of the police?
The Kenyans who help the world to cheat
The Kenyans escaping poverty by helping lazy foreigners to fake their academic work.
Beirut blast: Looking for Eleni
The hunt for a missing woman in the aftermath of Lebanon’s darkest day.
The Denial Files
1. The 'd-words' v the planet
Could disinformation and denial sabotage the fight to prevent runaway climate change?
2. Big oil in the dock
Is the fossil fuel industry misleading the public about its role in climate change?
3. The good science of ‘bad Brazilians’
Do Brazilian leaders really believe in fighting climate change?
4. From Covid conspiracy to climate change denial
A movement infected with pandemic conspiracies is now peddling climate change falsehoods
5. ‘We fight climate denial on Wikipedia’
Has Wikipedia won its long-running fight against climate change denial and bad science?