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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

The war in Ukraine has been going on for over two months. Fighting takes place not only on the ground and in the air, but also in the information space. More and more false information is appearing on social media. Its goal is to increase public support for one of…

Conspiracy theories are constantly popular online and are the perfect weapon in information warfare. Recently, on the occasion of the COVID-19 pandemic, a real flood of various more or less unlikely hypotheses regarding, for example, the origin of the virus causing the disease, could be observed. It is also known…

For several days, a video has been circulating on the Internet again with the scene of the crucifixion of a captured pro-Russian separatist, allegedly committed by the soldiers of the “Azov” Regiment, a paramilitary, extremely nationalist unit of Ukrainian volunteers. The crime was to be committed near the village…

Russian disinformation is constantly spreading false information and fighting for the hearts and souls of social media users. The subject of the analysis in this report are individual narratives spreading in the Baltic States (in Russian), Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine. The report…