Dark money fuelled disinformation in Michigan, Pennsylvania
Oct 28,2024 – JORDAN TIMES / James J. Zogby Heading into the November election, a massive expenditure of “dark money” in a disinformation campaign is under way designed to depress […]
The Global Network on the Question of Palestine (GNQP) strongly rejects the ongoing disinformation campaign against the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees
It is the employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) that are once again at the forefront of the humanitarian […]
Disinformation surge threatens to fuel Israel-Hamas conflict
By Stephanie Burnett, Stephen Farrell and Hardik Vyas October 18, 2023 reuters [1/2]A dove flies over the debris of houses destroyed in Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 11, […]
‘He gave nobody a full view of his life’: In his final days, Jamal Khashoggi juggled a secret wife in the U.S. and a fiancée in Turkey
Michael Isikoff ·Chief Investigative Correspondent July 5, 2021 In the early months of 2018, Jamal Khashoggi was living in exile in the United States — lonely, sad and bewildered as […]
US blocks websites linked to Iranian disinformation including Press TV and Houthi’s Al-Masirah
The message showing on the Houthi Al-Masirah channel’s website. Similar messages appeared on other Iranian-linked sites. (Screengrab) Short Url https://arab.news/gkt2u Iranian news agencies said that the US government had seized […]
The dead professor and the vast pro-India disinformation campaign
By Abid Hussain & Shruti Menon BBC Urdu & BBC Reality Check Published 4 hours ago A dead professor and numerous defunct organisations were resurrected and used alongside at least […]
We need to look beyond social media to tackle the scourge of disinformation
Blaming social media ignores the importance of untrue or misleading information spread by political actors or traditional media Thomas Colley @ThomasColley 18 hours ago Disinformation is widely perceived as a great threat to liberal […]
A global network of pro-Indian fake websites and think-tanks is aimed at influencing decision-making in Europe, researchers say.
The co-ordinated network of 265 sites operates across 65 countries, according to a report by EU Disinfo Lab, a Brussels-based NGO, The researchers traced the websites to an Indian company, […]
Lebanon #Disinformation: the online threat to protest in the Middle East
Social media users face attacks from influencers and fake accounts at home and abroad Ruth Michaelson in Cairo and Michael Safi in Amman Sun 15 Dec 2019 When […]
‘We’re not Chinese officers’: Indonesia fights anti-China disinformation
May 24, 2019 – 16:15 By Tabita Diela and Fanny Potkin JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian police arrested a man on Friday accused of creating an anti-Chinese disinformation campaign to […]
Six features of the disinformation age
Oct 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Kelly Born Concern about the proliferation of disinformation, misinformation and propaganda has reached the point where many governments are proposing new legislation. But the solutions on offer reflect an inadequate understanding of the problem — and could have negative unintended consequences. This past June, […]
Propaganda and Disinformation: How the CIA Manufactures History
Propaganda and Disinformation: How the CIA Manufactures History By Victor Marchetti In the eyes of posterity it will inevitably seem that, in safeguarding our freedom, we destroyed it. The vast clandestine apparatus we built up to prove our enemies’ resources and intentions only served in the end to confuse our […]
Disinformation flies in Syria’s growing cyber war
PETER APPS | REUTERS ARABNEWS Tuesday 7 August 2012 LONDON: On Sunday, it was a hijacked Reuters twitter feed trying to create the impression of a rebel collapse in Aleppo. On Monday, it was another account purporting to be a Russian diplomat announcing the death in Damascus of Syrian President […]