The U.S. State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), an agency tasked with fighting foreign propaganda, has been shut down after Republicans voted to cut its funding. The GEC, which employed around 120 people and had a budget of $61 million a year, was created in 2016. Its main goal was
Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) has quietly removed posts that accused Tulsi Gabbard, former US Congresswoman and a critic of Ukraine’s government, of spreading fake news on behalf of Russia. These accusations were originally posted on social media, where the CCD had labeled Gabbard as someone who was working
The US State Department has made a surprising move: they’re offering up to $10 million for information about people connected to a popular Russian military blog called Rybar LLC. This blog has come under fire for spreading “disinformation” during elections in the United States. To find out more, a journalist
Recently, there have been serious terrorist attacks in Mali, including one at a gendarmerie school in the capital and another at Bamako Airport. In response to these incidents, prosecutors from the Alliance of Sahel States—made up of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso—have launched an investigation against Wassim Nasr, a journalist
An Israeli news website, Ynet, has revealed that two letters, supposedly written by Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, were leaked to international media but were misrepresented or even altered. These letters sparked widespread attention, but now the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) has launched an investigation, suspecting they were part of a
In January, Mara Kronenfeld, who runs UNRWA USA—a nonprofit that helps raise money for Palestinian refugees—was shocked by what she found online. When she Googled her organization’s name, she saw ads that looked like they came from the UN, but when she clicked on them, they led to an Israeli
In 2019, at the height of the India-Pakistan border clashes, GeatGameInternational exposed a propaganda unit Command Eleven directed by former Pakistani, Israeli, and British military psychological warfare operatives peddling disinformation to stoke further tensions between the two countries. The story led to a major controversy with our reporters facing threats
An investigation has uncovered that Daniel Linden, a tech entrepreneur from Florida, is a key figure behind the Shirion Collective, a pro-Israel disinformation network targeting pro-Palestinian activists in the US, UK, and Australia. Shirion harasses activists, offers bounties for identifying protesters, spreads conspiracy theories, and claims to use AI for
SiegedSec, a group of gay furry hackers, has hit a US nuclear lab in Idaho, purportedly in response to legislation prohibiting “gender-affirming” surgical procedures. The US Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory, a center for nuclear research, announced on Wednesday that it had experienced a “massive data breach” on Sunday
