Knowledge is the vaccine for coronavirus hysteria The coronavirus pandemic is reminding us why we need experts essay Suzanne O'Sullivan
Chinese citizens fight coronavirus censorship with emojis and ancient languages After an article about a Wuhan doctor was blocked, thousands of people have used a variety of innovative means to keep sharing it dispatch Wufei Yu and Chaewon Chung
Soft Power: How nation-states buy influence Influence and control in the age of social media introduction Coda Story
The diary of a former Wuhan resident As the coronavirus spreads, former Wuhan resident Zeyi Yang will write updates on the truth, lies and disinformation circling his home city Zeyi Yang
The shadowy cult at the center of South Korea’s coronavirus outbreak Shincheonji claims to have about 200,000 followers in South Korea and wants to expand its influence in the West dispatch Chaewon Chung
The global anti-vax movement: a visual history Disinformation about vaccines has been around for hundreds of years feature Mariam Kiparoidze
Waging a global campaign to halt 5G The manager of an influential anti-5G Facebook group uses a radiation detector and claims the new network will have a disastrous effect on public health dispatch Filip Brokeš
How a disinformation campaign wiped out synthetic insulin’s deadly effects Hundreds of people died in the two decades after synthetic insulin was launched. A disinformation campaign covered up their plight Audrey Farley
In Algeria, ‘electronic flies’ threaten a protest movement Ahead of the presidential election on Thursday, pro-regime social media accounts dubbed “electronic flies” have flooded platforms like Facebook and Twitter with fake news and fear mongering dispatch Layli Foroudi
At the forefront of Europe’s battle for tech transparency Europe is already home to some of the world’s strictest data privacy laws. The EU thinks it can do much more dispatch Filip Brokeš
WhatsApp as a tool for fear and intimidation in Lebanon’s protests Among a polarized public that distrusts politicians and the fourth estate, unverifiable WhatsApp rumors carry the day dispatch Emily Lewis
Disinformation agents are targeting veterans in run-up to 2020 election Foreign actors eye future spies and government bureaucrats dispatch Katia Patin
Cambodia launches online disinfo campaign to repress opposition groups Ahead of the return of self-exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy, supporters are being rounded up and forced to make “confession” videos dispatch Andrew Nachemson
