Soft Power Investigation alleges Russian money behind political party in neighboring Georgia Documents show the Kremlin financing foreign politicians friendly to its interests dispatch Mariam Kiparoidze and Katia Patin
Information War Pepe the Frog, human trafficking and secret cabals — QAnon’s take on the RNC The Republican National Convention was a gift for online conspiracists dispatch Isobel Cockerell
Information War Conspiracists like what they hear at the RNC Melania Trump as QAnon Queen, shadowy elites and American values under attack dispatch Isobel Cockerell
Information War Pro-Kremlin social media teeming with theories about Alexey Navalny’s suspected poisoning The Russian opposition leader is in critical condition after suddenly falling ill during a flight to Moscow dispatch Katia Patin, Katerina Fomina and Tatiana Torocheshnikova
Traditional Values Russian prosecutors struggle to protect bruised religious feelings Standup comedians, musicians and gamers have fallen foul of a vague law whose enforcement has become unpredictable and dependent on the whims of private citizens making legal complaints to the authorities feature Felix Light
Information War How conspiracy theories surged after the Beirut explosion While many nations and individuals are rallying to Lebanon’s side, others are using the disaster to pursue their own political aims dispatch Emily Lewis
Information War Ammonium nitrate that devastated Beirut was manufactured in Georgia, officials confirmed Conspiracy theories and disinformation campaigns are poised to focus on targets outside of Lebanon dispatch Natalia Antelava
Information War Google queries in Africa reveal how coronavirus disinformation is evolving A recent report examined 3,000 search questions from 21 countries and discovered that it’s not always obvious that Africans know where to look for answers about Covid-19 dispatch Rachel Sherman
Information War The fight against Turkmenistan’s Covid-19 blackout In one of the world’s most isolated and authoritarian countries, masks are mandatory and hospitals are struggling to cope — but, officially, the virus still doesn’t exist feature Mariam Kiparoidze
Information War Enter the Grayzone: fringe leftists deny the scale of China’s Uyghur oppression This week, writer and commentator Max Blumenthal downplayed Beijing’s actions in Xinjiang on international TV — and he’s not the only one feature Caitlin Thompson
Information War More celebrities join the growing conspiracy theory movement follow-up Isobel Cockerell
Information War Duterte’s troll armies drown out Covid-19 dissent in the Philippines Trolls and bots are deflecting criticism of President Duterte’s handling of the worsening crisis dispatch Lynzy Billing
