Fake news
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False claims about ballot manipulation spread across social media during the 2025 German elections, raising concerns about the fast impact of misinformation online and how internet users can better protect themselves. Recent global and geopolitical events have prompted an increasingly large avalanche of false narratives and fake news both in Europe and beyond. While the…
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French authorities have shut down a website falsely claiming to be recruiting French volunteers to fight in Ukraine. The website purported to be organising a recruitment drive to enlist 200,000 French citizens, AFP reported “The site is a fake government site and has been reposted by malicious accounts as part of a disinformation campaign,” the…
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There are still a lot of unanswered questions regarding Tuesday’s explosion, but The Cube is here to help you separate fact from fiction by debunking the most viral claims and misleading videos online. In the aftermath of Tuesday’s hospital blast in Gaza, disinformation over where responsibility lies has flooded social media. The explosion rocked the…
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The exiled former lawyer of the Russian punk rock and activist group Pussy Riot has been put on the Kremlin’s wanted list, Russia’s TASS news agency reports. A source told the agency that Mark Feygin, who previously represented the anti-Kremlin group before fleeing to Ukraine, had been charged with spreading “false information”. In a call with the Moscow…
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Social media posts misrepresent reason for blurred presidential seal. CLAIM: Vice President Kamala Harris’ Twitter account blurred the presidential seal on President Joe Biden’s desk in a recent video because Biden isn’t really the president. THE FACTS: The video of Biden signing the $1 trillion “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” was first posted by the Democratic National…
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Vladimir Putin has signed bills banning what the state calls “fake news,” although the Russian president’s critics see the legislation as a thinly disguised crackdown on real news—and criticism of the authorities. The new laws introduce punishments for anybody who “exhibits blatant disrespect for the society, government, official government symbols, constitution or governmental bodies of…
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A Myanmar government spokesman on Wednesday rejected a report by United Nations investigators that called for top generals to be prosecuted for genocide, saying the international community was making “false allegations”, Reuters noted. His comments came a day after the U.N report, which marked the first time the organisation has explicitly called for Myanmar officials…
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