Disinformation ‘Here in China, we have no voice’ Africans living in Guangzhou say they are being accused of spreading the coronavirus and face arbitrary quarantines and discrimination dispatch Shola Lawal
Disinformation TV vs facts: realities clash as Russia goes into coronavirus lockdown Doctors and medical staff are being used in an ongoing campaign of disinformation dispatch Katia Patin and Katerina Fomina
Disinformation Disinformation about Qatar surges in wake of COVID-19 A weaponized hashtag and fake Twitter accounts seek to blame the small Gulf nation for the spread of COVID-19 feature Burhan Wazir
Disinformation With help from American activists, Ukrainian women are being misled about abortion Abortion has been legal in Ukraine for decades – but groups empowered by Trump’s White House are misleading vulnerable women about their options dispatch Tetiana Kozak
Disinformation Chinese citizens fight coronavirus censorship with emojis and ancient languages After an article about a Wuhan doctor was blocked, thousands of people have used a variety of innovative means to keep sharing it dispatch Wufei Yu and Chaewon Chung
Disinformation The diary of a former Wuhan resident As the coronavirus spreads, former Wuhan resident Zeyi Yang will write updates on the truth, lies and disinformation circling his home city Zeyi Yang
Disinformation In Algeria, ‘electronic flies’ threaten a protest movement Ahead of the presidential election on Thursday, pro-regime social media accounts dubbed “electronic flies” have flooded platforms like Facebook and Twitter with fake news and fear mongering dispatch Layli Foroudi
Disinformation At the forefront of Europe’s battle for tech transparency Europe is already home to some of the world’s strictest data privacy laws. The EU thinks it can do much more dispatch Filip Brokeš
Disinformation WhatsApp as a tool for fear and intimidation in Lebanon’s protests Among a polarized public that distrusts politicians and the fourth estate, unverifiable WhatsApp rumors carry the day dispatch Emily Lewis
Disinformation Disinformation agents are targeting veterans in run-up to 2020 election Foreign actors eye future spies and government bureaucrats dispatch Katia Patin
Disinformation Cambodia launches online disinfo campaign to repress opposition groups Ahead of the return of self-exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy, supporters are being rounded up and forced to make “confession” videos dispatch Andrew Nachemson
Disinformation At Russia’s inaugural Africa summit, Moscow sells sovereignty At a two-day event featuring 43 African heads of state this week, the Kremlin leaned on its ‘anti-colonial’ past for greater influence in Africa dispatch Evan Gershkovich
Disinformation Ahead of elections, Poland’s conservative media fires up anti-LGBTQ propaganda Activists say scaremongering about LGBTQ communities has almost become official policy in Poland dispatch Cecilia Butini
Disinformation Inside the Donetsk People’s Republic’s sisyphean struggle for international legitimacy Four years after war broke out in Ukraine, the separatists have opened six “embassies.” None of them are recognized dispatch Anna Myronuik
Disinformation Bullets, threats of rape and disinformation in Italy With the collapse of Italy’s government, the country’s immediate future will be determined by anti-establishment parties whose supporters rally against liberal politicians like Laura Boldrini dispatch Irene Caselli
