#KeepPrisonsSingleSex: How botnets pushed a hashtag to Westminster
A Logically investigation has uncovered evidence of a Twitter botnet promoting the hashtag #KeepPrisonsSingleSex. By Rachel Muller-Heyndyk and Joe Ondrak
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Disclose.tv: Conspiracy Forum Turned Disinformation Factory
With additional reporting by Ernie Piper
Disclose.tv, a disinformation outlet based in Germany, is bringing fake news to a timeline near you. Although it now presents itself on social media as a reliable news source, Disclose.tv originated as a...
Bots Spread Disinformation That Indian Cabinet Removed Sikhs From Army
A Logically investigation has discovered a disinformation campaign on Twitter, run by a coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) network of bots and trolls, that spread the false narrative that the Indian government has taken a Cabinet decision to...
Pakistan-Based Disinformation Op Focuses on Mizoram-Assam Border
Investigation by Atandra Ray and Dhriti Kamdar
Climate Change Misinformation in the Age of COVID-19
Climate change has been widely acknowledged as the gravest threat that human civilization has ever faced; this was true before the pandemic, and it is still true now. What has changed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, is that...
Telegram COVID-19 Conspiracy Group Rife With Antisemitism
By Ernie Piper and Jordan Wildon
Content warning for extreme antisemitic images.
A Logically investigation into one of the largest COVID-19 conspiracy groups on English-language Telegram has found a disturbing amount of antisemitism. In a...
Tracking Nationalist Narratives On The Moplah Rebellion
August 2021 marked the centenary year of the Moplah Rebellion, a four-month long agitation by Muslim agricultural workers against unfair British land laws. In the same week the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) proposed removing 387...
Polarizing Misinfo Narratives Continue to Hijack Farmers' Protests
When three SUVs rammed a group of protesters on October 3 in Uttar Pradesh – resulting in the death of four farmers, three Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers, and a journalist – right-wing accounts blamed the protesters for being extremists. As...
Chinese Consuls General Allege U.S. Lobsters Caused Pandemic
A piece of disinformation suggesting that COVID-19 originally came from U.S. seafood imported into China has been promoted by several Chinese consulate officials, a Logically investigation has found.