Traditional Values On the run in LA from Russia’s anti-LGBTQ campaign A YouTube producer facing charges under the country’s controversial anti-gay law has fled to the US feature Katia Patin
Information War ‘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
Soft Power Veiled threats and WhatsApp bribes accompany Russia’s aid to Italy follow-up Isobel Cockerell
Soft Power The influence operation behind Russia's coronavirus aid to Italy How the Kremlin is using Covid-19 crisis to undermine NATO and the EU feature Natalia Antelava
Information War 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
Information War 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
Information War 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
Information War 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
Soft Power Soft Power: How nation-states buy influence Influence and control in the age of social media introduction Coda Story
Information War 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
As Flight MH17 trial begins, Russia, unlike Iran, refuses to admit guilt Iran admitted to shooting down the Ukrainian jet days after the tragedy. As the trial for MH17 begins in Holland, Russians are still living with the impact of the government’s lies about its responsibility six years later dispatch Katerina Fomina
Information War 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
Information War 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
Information War 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
