Fact checks

2 days ago

Russian fake: Ukrainian license plates torn off in Slovakia to protest halt in Russian gas transit

Propagandists have deployed bots on social media platforms to disseminate disinformation to Western audiences

4 days ago

Russian fakes and California fires: Ukrainians 'steal' donations, actress Lee Curtis 'slams' Ukraine aid

Russian propagandists created fake content involving USA Today and Instagram story by American actress Jamie Lee Curtis

5 days ago

Russian propaganda spreads fake video about Lavrov's speech being shown on Times Square screens

Propagandists doctored a YouTube video filmed in New York's central square

1 week ago

Russian propaganda falsely claims police targeted Ukrainians for celebrating Christmas on Jan 7

Propagandists fabricated an ad supposedly placed in a Ukrainian church and manipulated Google Trends data

1 week ago

Russian propaganda fabricates fake story about Zelensky's 'unsuccessful attempt' to join Chinese TikTok

Russians first created a fake account for the President of Ukraine and then falsely claimed that Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, blocked it

1 week ago

Russia trying to discredit U.S. media with fakes about Ukrainian army losses

Russian propagandists fabricated a video by merging two unrelated news stories from different U.S. TV channels -- one about Ukrainian refugees and another about a Cincinnati nursing home

2 weeks ago

Russian propagandists amplify false claims about rising Ukrainian casualties during offensive in Kursk region

Russian propaganda fabricated a three-year-old video and distorted a news story about the planned construction of a crematorium in Lviv

3 weeks ago

Russian propaganda spreads fake about 'casting' disabled men for military roles in New Year's show

Propagandists fabricated job search ads allegedly posted on Ukrainian platforms OLX and Jooble

3 weeks ago

Russian propaganda spreads New Year's fake: Education Ministry 'recommends' preschoolers dress as Stepan Bandera

Propagandists faked 'ad' about New Year's party in Lviv kindergarten

3 weeks ago

Russian propaganda fabricates false claim that over 80% of Ukrainians watched 'direct line' with Putin

Propagandists faked Reuters video with phony survey and fabricated magazine cover

4 weeks ago

Russian propaganda spreads fake claim about opening of ski resort in Kyiv during war

Polish-speaking bots on social media platforms falsely passed off China's Wintastar Shanghai ski resort as one in Kyiv

4 weeks ago

Police respond to video of pseudo-veterans begging by Kyiv mall

Kyiv Police exposed two civilians who were begging outside a shopping mall in Kyiv’s Darnytsia district, posing as war veterans.

4 weeks ago

Russian propaganda fakes graffiti caricature of Zelensky in false video from French TV channel

Russian propagandists have created a fake video, allegedly from the French TV channel TF1, to mislead Western audiences

4 weeks ago

Russian propaganda spreads fake about ban on female names in Ukraine

Russian propagandists turned to TikTok as a platform to spread disinformation aimed at inciting divisions within Ukrainian society

1 month ago

Russian propaganda spreads fake claims about European Parliament accusing Ukraine of crimes against its own children

Propagandists manipulated speech by former Dutch MEP affiliated with pro-Russian Forum for Democracy (FvD) party

1 month ago

Russian propaganda spreads fake news about U.S. journalists 'gloating over' Ukrainian Armed Forces losses

Propagandists fabricated video featuring morning show broadcast on Sacramento-based TV channel

1 month ago

Zelensky's visit to Paris: Russian propaganda invents TV show and fakes Charlie Hebdo cover

Russian propagandists are attempting to discredit President Volodymyr Zelensky and undermine the significance of his visit to France in the eyes of Western audiences.

1 month ago

Russian propaganda falsely claims Zelensky bought French hotel, Kuleba's son acquired 'Iron Throne'

Propagandists fabricated a video purportedly produced by an American TV channel and created a cloned hotel website

1 month ago

Russian propaganda spreading fakes about captured European military women accused of torturing Russian POWs

Propagandists used fabricated stories and repurposed photos of deceased Ukrainian heroines, falsely portraying them as foreign fighters

1 month ago

Poland refutes fake about Ukrainian schoolchildren being forbidden to speak their native language

Propagandists fabricated advertisement, falsely attributed to Polish school

1 month ago

Russian propaganda spreads fake about Ukraine transferring chemical weapons to Mali rebels

Russian propagandists are attempting to cover up crimes committed by Wagner Group in Africa by falsely attributing them to Ukraine

1 month ago

Russian propaganda spreading false claims about Ukrainian land sold to 'half the world'

Russian propagandists are circulating a map and 'analysis' based on fake news and research

1 month ago

Russian propaganda fabricates losses among foreigners defending Ukraine

Propagandists created fake screenshot from website of funeral services agency

1 month ago

Russian propaganda fabricates 'The Economist' cover about 'beginning' of World War III

Russian propagandists created counterfeit cover of renowned British magazine to disseminate nuclear threats aimed at Western audiences

2 months ago

Russian propaganda spreads deepfake claiming Ukrainian troops withdrew from Kursk region

Russian propagandists have fabricated deepfake video falsely claiming to feature Ukrainian servicemen

2 months ago

Russian propaganda attempts to discredit Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunner's heroic feat

Russian propagandists used bot on X to spread false claims

2 months ago

Russian propaganda fabricates claim about Ukrainian military using uniforms of deceased foreign "mercenaries"

Propagandists fabricated photos from OLX marketplace

2 months ago

Russians faked photo of wounded Ukrainian soldier and blamed it on ‘Ukrainian media’

Russian propagandists created a news story from an unknown "Ukrainian newspaper" and then accused it of altering the photo of a Ukrainian soldier

2 months ago

Russian propaganda spreads fake news about Ukrainian soldiers surrendering en masse after U.S. election

To amplify their disinformation, propagandists employed a 'pocket' foreign pseudo-journalist and fabricated a video purportedly linked to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW)

2 months ago

Russian fake: Most Europeans are against support for Ukraine

Propagandists faked video with results of Eurostat 'survey'