Category: Fake news
Supposedly, 15,000 Poles were killed in Ukraine. Who is behind this claim?
"Impressive numbers." That's how State Duma deputy Alexander Borodai described the fabricated number of 15,000 Poles supposedly killed by Russian fo [...]
Disinformation campaign against Poland
Russian propaganda runs a multi-faceted campaign against Poland. The aim of it is to show that the Polish government has aggressive plans towards Ukra [...]
Russia: fact-checking is the Kremlin’s latest propaganda tool
The Russian Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN) claims it verifies facts, but in reality, this website — created and run by Kremlin-affiliated entitie [...]
Russia: Poles are being “displaced” from border regions
“Kaliningrad border guards have observed active military infrastructure development along the border on the Polish side. At the same time, Polish auth [...]
Enslaved Truth, the Russian Way
Is there a common thread linking the various instances of Russian disinformation aimed at Poland? The immediate answer to this question lies in the ex [...]
They want to create discord between Poles and Ukrainians
Russian media are routinely misleading their readers with fabricated stories alleging that Poland intends to annex western Ukrainian territory. Russia [...]
Russian Media Outlets Mislabel Treblinka as a “Polish Camp”
At least several Russian news platforms have referred to the Nazi German extermination camp at Treblinka as a "Polish death conveyor.” Among these pla [...]
Spotting disinformation: Six tactics used to fool us (4)
Learn to recognise different tactics of information manipulation, disinformation and fake news with six videos on the European Parliament website. [...]
This time, they’ve fabricated a story about 20,000 NATO soldiers.
In early May, Russian media raised an alarm, claiming that over 22,000 NATO troops had amassed in Gdańsk. The source of this information was traced ba [...]