The Internet Research Agency (IRA) is a Russian company located in St. Petersburg. In reality, it is a “troll factory” financed by the Kremlin, whose existence was discovered in 2013 by Russian journalists pretending to be candidates applying for jobs there. The regional press, including Finnish and Polish news outlets, then got hold of the […]
Created in 2007 and modeled on Russia Today (RT), Press TV defines itself as an "Iranian international news channel with the participation of Middle East specialists". Its slogan is "Voice of the Voiceless". In January 2012, the United Kingdom revoked its license for lack of editorial independence from the government of the Islamic Republic of […]
The term 'active measures' (aktivinyye meropriatia in Russian) refers to strategies or techniques – "open" or secret – implemented by the Kremlin to influence foreign public opinion and actions. The measures include disinformation as well as infiltration or manipulation of youth organizations or trade unions, and the use of agents of influence and foreign pro-Russian […]
Anti-Zionism is usually accompanied by a refusal to consider there is such a thing as a Jewish people with the right to freely choose its destiny within the framework of a sovereign nation-state. Portraying Zionism in a negative light, such as by likening it to a type of racism (as illustrated in a 1975 United […]
The misnamed flat Earth ‘theory’ is a denial of scientific proof that the Earth is round. It is based on the belief of a widespread global conspiracy involving governments and space agencies worldwide, with the goal of convincing humanity that the Earth is actually shaped like a disc. Research suggests that YouTube has been key […]
The denunciation of globalism is commonplace in extremist rhetoric. French political scientist Jean-Yves Camus recalls that "the term globalism is a neologism that appeared in the early 1980s in the conspiracy circles of the antisemitic far-right [...] to designate the so-called concerted action of secret societies, economic interest groups or lobbies to achieve the establishment […]
Joseph Mercola (1954 - ) is an American osteopath who is an advocate of so-called “alternative” medicine. Created in 1998, Mercola.com is one of the most popular alternative health platforms in the world and the flagship of a vast digital empire of disinformation. It features anti-vaccination and pseudo-scientific content as well as the promotion of […]
Gordon Duff is editor-in-chief of Veterans Today, a far-right American website that hosts Holocaust denial content and specialises in the dissemination of "anti-Zionist" conspiracy theories. He is a veteran who served in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. Duff sees the hand of Israel and its secret services behind most contemporary tragedies. In his […]
New Eastern Outlook (NEO) is an English-language Russian conspiracy site that describes itself as offering "unbiased expert opinions" on news ranging "from Japan to the remote coast of Africa". According to Newsguard, NEO is controlled by the Russian Academy of Sciences, known for publishing false information about the coronavirus pandemic and Covid-19 vaccines developed in […]
Advocates of this theory like Sungenis, insist that the sun revolves around the Earth and not the other way around. On November 6, 2010, Sungenis organized a conference in South Bend (Indiana) with the same title as one of the books he had co-edited a few years earlier with Robert Bennett: Galileo Was Wrong, The […]
