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The Infodemic: Is Britain’s Telegraph falling for an oligarch’s spin machine? Plus in Tajikistan, a diagnosis that no one believes

Welcome back! We're tracking the global spread of coronavirus disinformation, and what is being done to combat it. Here are two narratives that caught our attention today:

An Oligarch’s Spin Machine

A new ranking on pandemic philanthropy shows top contributors to the fight against the coronavirus in proportion to the size of the populations they are trying to help. 

Bill Gates is in 9th place. Jeff Bezos occupies 11th. Mark Zuckerberg: 37th. A billionaire you’ve probably never heard of tops the charts.

I’d like to link to the chart but the only place where it exists is behind a paywall in this article about an oligarch from Georgia - country not the state - who is profiled by Britain’s newspaper The Telegraph.