In November, an advertising campaign by the Balenciaga fashion house echoed loudly, depicting children holding teddy bears in harnesses and mesh tops in BDSM style. Balenciaga issued a statement admitting the mistake and apologizing for the campaign. The case was commented by a Polish singer Edyta Górniak. On…

The Football World Cup in Qatar began on 20 November. This is the biggest sporting event in the world, with the largest media coverage. Russian propaganda also takes advantage of its popularity. A video disguised as an Al Jazeera material has been gaining more and more popularity on the web. It…

In connection with the death of Masha Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman who died in unexplained circumstances in custody after being arrested by the morality police for wearing her hijab in an inappropriate way, a wave of protests is taking place in Iran. An estimated number of 14,000 arrested demonstrators …

On 17 October, Russian websites published an animated film whose main characters are a pig with Nazi tattoos and a Ukrainian flag, and a bear with a band in the colours of the Russian flag. The plot focuses on the propaganda portrayal of the European Union as a place morally…

On 4 October, 2022, a photo of Jeremy Bowen, a BBC reporter, lying on the ground during his coverage of the war in Ukraine, began circulating on social media. People re-sharing the photograph claimed that he only pretended to report on the situation during Russian shelling. This was allegedly confirmed…

On 9 October, Raheem Kassam, former adviser to Nigel Farage, one of the co-authors of Brexit, posted on his Twitter profile a photo of Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with a close-up of his bracelet. In the enlarged photo, he marked one of the…

On 28 September 2022, the Sputnik Not satirical account published a post on Twitter, featuring a photo of Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International, and the following description: Amnesty chief Agnes Callamard urges Ukraine not to shoot at newly mobilized Russian troops, as killing untrained combatants would be very unfair.

On 27 September 2022, a photo of ballot papers concerning an alleged referendum on the annexation of the Lviv oblast to the Republic of Poland appeared on Russian portals and in social media, including Telegram, vKontakte and Twitter. These packages bear the seal and stamp of the…

In the early morning of 21 September, an apartment settled by a Ukrainian citizen was demolished in Kliny housing estate in Kraków. The video and photos from the scene of the event contributed to several false anti-refugee and anti-Ukrainian narratives. We contacted the spokespersons of the Małopolska Police and the…

In connection with the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the long-circulating image that is a photomontage has re-emerged again on the Internet. The fake photo depicts a young queen raising her right hand in the gesture of Nazi salute. The article also describes other references to Nazi greetings in the…