Meghan never stood a chance against the internet Netflix’s “Harry & Meghan” documentary has re-ignited a campaign of hate by a mix of real and fake accounts targeting the royal couple feature Isobel Cockerell
How China became a global disinformation superpower Beijing is working to influence public opinion through state media’s partnership agreements abroad q&a Liam Scott
Along the Poland border with Belarus, 'we will never know how many people died' Poland blocks asylum seekers at the border with Belarus. The result is injury, even death, and a tarnishing of Poland’s humanitarian achievements q&a Amanda Coakley
Qatar rebrands criticism from the West as a clash of civilizations The intensity of the coverage of human rights failings, the World Cup hosts say, is racism in action rather than genuine concern explainer Shougat Dasgupta and Rayan El Amine
Behind the carnivalesque energy at CPAC México, a serious bid to unite a fractured international far-right Ideological true-believers, Catholic nationalists and cross-border election-deniers gathered in Mexico City to hone an agenda and anoint a new conservative leader for Mexico dispatch Danielle Lee Tomson
Covid misinformation ignites a battle over blood in a Canadian province Vaccine fears are causing Canadians to refuse blood transfusions while a province executive peddles misinformation feature Rebekah Robinson
‘Kanye drank the Kool Aid’: Connecting the dots between antisemitism and white nationalism Antisemitism is at the heart of American white nationalist ideology, drawing on the age-old trope of blaming Jewish people for societal ills q&a Erica Hellerstein
Syria rolls out the red carpet for influencers and friendly foreigners, while local reporters face death and prison An elaborate disinformation campaign to show that stability has returned to Syria might be prompting countries to forcibly thrust Syrian refugees back into an ongoing civil war feature Rayan El Amine
Modi wants to export traditional Indian medicine to the world, but doctors warn against pseudoscience and quack cures Driven by ideology, the Indian government is promoting Ayurveda, a millennia-old system, as a valid alternative to Western medicine. But its “natural” cures are insufficiently tested and sometimes dangerous feature Catherine Davison
AI image generators enable the creation of fake pictures to support fake news Widespread access to new technology will make fact checking and countering disinformation more complex, warns new report q&a Rebekah Robinson
Election disinformation is moving from TikTok to WhatsApp and beyond in Brazil’s election Digital disinformation has played a pivotal role in Jair Bolsonaro’s rise – and it could determine whether or not he stays in power feature Laura Scofield and Nathallia Fonseca
In the Brazilian runoff, evangelical influencers flock to Bolsonaro In polarized Brazil, neutrality is suspicious and ‘Influencers of faith’ must deliver a point of view to their large and growing audience feature Fernanda Seavon
Chinese government finds African scholarship students return home to tell of disturbing experiences China funds thousands of scholarships for African students to come to China, so they can tell “A good China story.” They are leaving China with a worse impression of the country than when they arrived. Is this soft power backfiring? feature Natasha Robinson
In Nicaragua, there are no more newspapers Journalists are either in jail or in exile, as Daniel Ortega sets about destroying the country’s independent media. And the rest of Central America is following in line. feature Isabel Bonnet
'Nobody helped me': Austria shaken by suicide of doctor trolled by anti-vaccine haters Police in Austria downplayed threats and abuse sent to a small-town doctor. Her death is prompting questions across Europe about how to protect people from trolling and bullying feature Emily Schultheis
