A scene from a Russian TV series in which a dead man comes back to life is gaining popularity on social media as a justification for further conspiracy theories. Nobody rose from the dead in Tver… There is also no indication that we are dealing with a zombie apocalypse in…

On 21 March, on the Russian social media platform Zen Yandex, photos of people with painted faces and tied to a pole were published. The photos were accompanied by the following comment (our translation below): Zen Yandex Year 2022. Europe. Lviv Nazism in plain sight. Now it’s time…

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 10 May, Adrien Bocquet, a former soldier of the French army, who had returned from Ukraine a few days earlier, where he had provided humanitarian aid, gave an interview on Sud Radio. The video from the conversation, which is available on YouTube, has almost one million views. A part of this…

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…

On September 10, a photo of a poster appeared on social media informing about the alleged reward in Switzerland for informing on neighbours who heat their apartments above 19 degrees Celsius. The poster contains the logo of the Swiss government and a correct phone number to the Department of Energy.

In recent days, we have observed an intensified disinformation campaign directed against refugees, aimed at causing panic, chaos and aggression against dark-skinned immigrants who cross the Polish-Ukrainian border. We receive a lot of information on this subject from our Readers. Poland, like most of the western world, unequivocally sided with…

In August 2022, photos of a brochure appeared on social media, which seems to be a manual for children explaining how the youth should react when coming in contact with adult strangers with paedophile tendencies. This leaflet provides the very opposite advice to that given to children around the world,…

The anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising is one of the most important dates in the calendar of the collective memory of Poles. The tragedy of this event and the emotions connected with it are used to spread disinformation and false narratives about the Uprising. On July 28,…