Foreign influence laws wreaking havoc on journalists, professors in India and the US Critics say recent rulings in the two countries form part of a crackdown on civil society and the press dispatch Gautama Mehta
Welcome to TikTok's sanitized version of Xinjiang TikTok’s Xinjiang hashtag is cleansed of content about the Uyghur humanitarian crisis, according to a new report dispatch Isobel Cockerell
Disney faces backlash after thanking Xinjiang authorities in ‘Mulan’ credits follow-up Mariam Kiparoidze
Investigation alleges Russian money behind political party in neighboring Georgia Documents show the Kremlin financing foreign politicians friendly to its interests dispatch Mariam Kiparoidze and Katia Patin
Pepe the Frog, human trafficking and secret cabals — QAnon’s take on the RNC The Republican National Convention was a gift for online conspiracists dispatch Isobel Cockerell
The Brazilian city being turned into a coronavirus "lab experiment" In a country with the world’s second-highest pandemic death toll, public officials and doctors are promoting a drug that scientists say is unproven against Covid-19 dispatch Isabela Dias
Conspiracists like what they hear at the RNC Melania Trump as QAnon Queen, shadowy elites and American values under attack dispatch Isobel Cockerell
Pro-Kremlin social media teeming with theories about Alexey Navalny’s suspected poisoning The Russian opposition leader is in critical condition after suddenly falling ill during a flight to Moscow dispatch Katia Patin, Katerina Fomina and Tatiana Torocheshnikova
How conspiracy theories surged after the Beirut explosion While many nations and individuals are rallying to Lebanon’s side, others are using the disaster to pursue their own political aims dispatch Emily Lewis
Ammonium nitrate that devastated Beirut was manufactured in Georgia, officials confirmed Conspiracy theories and disinformation campaigns are poised to focus on targets outside of Lebanon dispatch Natalia Antelava
Google queries in Africa reveal how coronavirus disinformation is evolving A recent report examined 3,000 search questions from 21 countries and discovered that it’s not always obvious that Africans know where to look for answers about Covid-19 dispatch Rachel Sherman
Italy’s anti-vaxxers are getting political The coronavirus pandemic has boosted the ranks of anti-vaxxers in Italy and abroad dispatch Alexandra Tyan
The fight against Turkmenistan’s Covid-19 blackout In one of the world’s most isolated and authoritarian countries, masks are mandatory and hospitals are struggling to cope — but, officially, the virus still doesn’t exist feature Mariam Kiparoidze
