Information War Disinformation agents are targeting veterans in run-up to 2020 election Foreign actors eye future spies and government bureaucrats dispatch Katia Patin
Information War 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
Information War 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
Armed Conflict Ukraine's war: inside a frontline town torn by five years of conflict Fighting and disinformation have sown division at the center of a proposed peace deal photo essay Benas Gerdziunas
Information War 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
Information War 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
Information War 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
Information War Memes and satire on Hong Kong’s front lines Away from the current clashes between police and protesters, artists and digital activists are using parodies and humor to protest the crackdown dispatch Antony Dapiran
Information War A new game claims to 'vaccinate' users against disinformation. We tried it out Players can become conspiracy theorists and run their own fake news empire dispatch Kira Taylor Karol Bohacova
Information War Russia’s journalists make rare stand for independent press A rare show of solidarity between pro-Kremlin and independent journalists helped Ivan Golunov stay out of jail feature Eva Hartog
Soft Power Pro-Orban media moguls who destroyed Hungary’s media now targeting European outlets A buying spree by Orban’s oligarchs across Europe means more far-right news outlets and more danger to EU democracies dispatch Alison Mutler
Traditional Values LGBTQ Georgians debate rights strategy as violence threatens Pride Week In an era of information manipulation, it’s much harder for activists to identify hostile forces and forge a shared resistance dispatch Lucy Papachristou
Information War A hybrid hunt for criminal journalists Coda is republishing Ivan Golunov's story in the wake of his arrest — and subsequent release this week — by Russian authorities as a show of solidarity for his crusading investigative journalism dispatch Ivan Golunov
Antifa, the intellectual dark web, and the internet’s twisted cylinder debates over media bias Inge Snip