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Influencers are falsely claiming that Ukrainian drones were permitted to transit NATO airspace, suggesting that NATO + the Baltic states have entered the war against Russia. These allegations contradict government statements + are unsupported by evidence. disinfowatch.org/disinfo/nor…
U.S. influencer Cash Jordan has attracted nearly 1.5M YouTube views by amplifying sensational Alberta separatist narratives, blending existing grievances with misleading claims about Canada's future.
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Lavrov's + RT's latest spin about Navalny borders on the absurd: Russia supposedly acted benevolently to help save Navalny by “airlifting” him to Germany?
No.
Russia initially blocked his transfer and the poisoning was traced to Kremlin agents.
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Russia’s Baltic playbook is built on contradictions.
Portray NATO as ‘preparing an attack’. Cast the Baltic states as ‘aggressors’. Claim Russian speakers need ‘protection’. Then frame Russia as the party merely reacting to it all.
Different narratives, same destination: portray Moscow as the victim.
A former Fox host Trish Regan is pushing Alberta referendum misinformation to her 1.34 million YouTube subscribers.
She falsely calls the Oct. 19 vote a “secession vote” and pitches Alberta as America’s “51st state.”
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A Russian drone struck a passenger train in Ukraine near the Polish border. Media reports suggest senior European officials may have been traveling in the area around the time of the attack and were evacuated safely.
More than four years into the full-scale invasion, Russia continues to terrorize Ukrainian civilians through strikes on the infrastructure and transport routes they depend on every day.
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Not only is the claim false and deeply hypocritical, but with the Kremlin having murdered, banned or imprisoned all political opposition and likely already decided the outcome, interfering in its ‘elections’ would probably be impossible anyway.
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Anne Applebaum on MAGA ambitions towards Canada: “pressure the economy, break up the federation, pick up the pieces. And no, it is not a joke.”
American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."
Read more here:
theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
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Neither the Ukrainian nor the Canadian Parliament is suspended.
This is the horseshit that you find at the bottom of the political horseshoe....
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A Russian Shahed crossed Moldova and entered Romanian airspace, triggering emergency alerts and scrambling NATO jets.
Moscow keeps warning Europe about ‘escalation’. But Moscow’s war already keeps crossing the border.
Russian narratives targeting Zelensky’s visit to Canada.
A network of fake Alberta websites created to shape the Alberta separatism debate with new analysis from VIGIL Strategic Intelligence on the network behind them.
All in our latest DisinfoDigest:
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A Moscow-based Australian blogger is pushing a conspiracy claiming the Leipzig drone attack was staged.
A classic Kremlin information tactic: replace evidence with insinuation to erode attribution + sow doubt about Kremlin domestic terror attacks.
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U.S. influencer Benny Johnson openly urging Albertans to separate and join US - "why wouldn't we take it by force" - to his 4.1million followers on Twitter.
His video drew 250k+ views on YouTube alone....
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#Russia claims to support and protect Indigenous minorities. Meanwhile, they continue to unlawfully detain Crimean Tatars, the Indigenous Peoples of Crimea.
#StandWithUkraine
More facts countering lies: international.gc.ca/world-mo…
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Read more about the Kremlin’s ‘Russophobia’ narrative and how it is used as a political tool on EUvsDisinfo: euvsdisinfo.eu/report/russop…
RT amplifies JD Vance’s false claim that Canada is a leading global “trade violator”, exploiting deteriorating Canada–U.S. relations to deepen mistrust and division between Canadians and Americans.
Our latest DisinfoWatch analysis: disinfowatch.org/disinfo/rt-…
Canada’s Foreign Influence Transparency Registry takes effect on August 4.
So what do these operations look like in practice — and who may need to register?
We created this DisinfoWatch video primer to explain:
The Kremlin is threatening Canada over support for Ukraine’s defence industry and partnership with drone manufacturers.
The tactic is familiar: invert blame, call Ukraine’s self-defence “terrorism,” and intimidate Canadian firms and workers.
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Alex Jones falsely claims Canadians are being “snatched off the street” and committed to mental institutions for criticizing government.
They’re not. But this conspiracy is being spread by far-right U.S. MAGA aligned influencers.
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Russia’s “Merchant of Death,” Viktor Bout, threatens nuclear war + strikes against NATO with Alex Jones. Classic Kremlin escalation propaganda that frames Russia as victim, NATO as aggressor, and support for Ukraine as reckless. disinfowatch.org/disinfo/rus…
