Hold on!

Creating content like this costs us a lot of time and effort. Could you please consider a small donation?

Close that window

Autor: Mateusz Zadroga

  • Mateusz Zadroga 22 posts

    A graduate of history at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University. A member of the FakeNews.pl team since December 2020, since March 2025 editor-in-chief of the portal. He is a fact-checker, an analyst and a trainer. He specialises in historical and military topics, Russian disinformation, and the activities of conspiracy theorist movements. In 2021–2022, he worked as a specialist in detecting disinformation at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (PJATK). Since April 2024, he has been leading the work of the expert team at PJATK in creating artificial intelligence tools to facilitate the detection and verification of disinformation. He is also the author of several reports published by universities and international organizations.

White crosses on Ukrainian military vehicles and Nazi symbolism

White crosses on Ukrainian military vehicles and Nazi symbolism

According to information circulating on social media, the white crosses painted on Ukrainian military vehicles are a reference to the Nazi tank markings during World War II. The narrative is intended to arouse resentment towards the Ukrainian army and is in line with the propaganda promoted by the Kremlin for…

Read more
The anti-vaccine movement and pro-Russian propaganda in social media – a summary report

The anti-vaccine movement and pro-Russian propaganda in social media – a summary report

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, there has been a trend in which anti-vaccine accounts have been changing their narrative towards supporting Kremlin propaganda.  This phenomenon shows how strong Russian influence is. The following text gives an insight into how conspiracy groups, consciously or not, spread the disinformation…

Read more