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</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">StopFake</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Formation</th><td class="infobox-data note">2&nbsp;March 2014<span style="display:none">&nbsp;(<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2014-03-02</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Founders</th><td class="infobox-data">Margot Gontar<br>Oleg Shankovskyi<br>Yevhen Fedchenko (chief editor<sup id="cite_ref-Milasius_Bankauskaitė_2022_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Milasius_Bankauskaitė_2022-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)<br>Ruslan Deynychenko</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Purpose</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Fact-checking" title="Fact-checking">Fact-checking</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Kyiv" title="Kyiv">Kyiv</a>, <a href="Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Official languages </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>, <a href="English_language" title="English language">English</a>, <a href="Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>, <a href="Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a>, <a href="Romanian_language" title="Romanian language">Romanian</a>, <a href="Bulgarian_language" title="Bulgarian language">Bulgarian</a>, <a href="French_language" title="French language">French</a>, <a href="Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a>, <a href="Czech_language" title="Czech language">Czech</a>, <a href="German_language" title="German language">German</a><sup id="cite_ref-ejo-budivska_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ejo-budivska-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Staff</th><td class="infobox-data">15 (2022)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stopfake.org/">www<wbr>.stopfake<wbr>.org</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>The <b>StopFake</b> website is a project of Ukrainian media <a href="NGO" class="mw-redirect" title="NGO">NGO</a> <b>Media Reforms Center</b>. It was founded in March 2014 by <a href="Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukrainian</a> professors and students with the stated purpose of refuting <a href="Russian_propaganda" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian propaganda">Russian propaganda</a> and <a href="Fake_news" title="Fake news">fake news</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GUARD_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GUARD-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-POLITICOstop_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-POLITICOstop-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYTstop_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTstop-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It began as a Russian- and English-language <a href="Fact-checking" title="Fact-checking">fact-checking</a> organization, and has grown to include a TV show broadcast on 30 local channels, a weekly radio show, and a strong social media following.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>StopFake was founded as a volunteer effort, but by 2017 included paid employees on its team. It is largely funded by grants.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has received praise from other media outlets. In 2014 it received a <a href="The_BOBs_(weblog_award)" title="The BOBs (weblog award)">BOBs</a> award from <a href="Deutsche_Welle" title="Deutsche Welle">Deutsche Welle</a> and a <a href="Free_Media_Pioneer_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Free Media Pioneer Award">Free Media Pioneer Award</a> from the <a href="International_Press_Institute" title="International Press Institute">International Press Institute</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>
<p>The organization grew out of an online discussion between faculty and alumni of <a href="National_University_of_Kyiv-Mohyla_Academy" title="National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy">National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-niemanlab_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-niemanlab-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Margot Gontar (at that point a recent <a href="Master's_degree" title="Master's degree">master's graduate</a> of the Mohyla journalism program), Oleg Shankovskyi, Ruslan Deynychenko,<sup id="cite_ref-ejo-budivska_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ejo-budivska-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Yevhen Fedchenko (a professor of journalism at Mohyla Academy) co-founded the organization in 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-dw-chiponda_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dw-chiponda-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-niemanlab_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-niemanlab-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYTstop_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTstop-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-time-raab_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-time-raab-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The website StopFake.org went live on 2 March 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was founded shortly after the <a href="Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation">invasion and annexation of Crimea by Russia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In its first four months of operation, its website averaged one and a half million visitors per month.<sup id="cite_ref-ejo-russ_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ejo-russ-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In November 2016, the organization became a partner in the <a href="First_Draft_News" title="First Draft News">First Draft News</a> network.<sup id="cite_ref-ejo-budivska_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ejo-budivska-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Operation">Operation</h2></div>
<p>StopFake opposes the spread of disinformation by Russia,<sup id="cite_ref-GUARD_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GUARD-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> focusing on information disseminated on social media.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including through the use of digital tools.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It produces <i>StopFake News</i>, a weekly television show hosted by co-founder Gontar only about fake news, and holds the standard that "[i]f fact checkers cannot prove that a story published or broadcast by another news media outlet is false, it will not be featured in the weekly airing".<sup id="cite_ref-NYTstop_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTstop-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Following the allegations of <a href="Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections" title="Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections">Russian influence in the 2016 United States presidential election</a>, StopFake began to gain international recognition.<sup id="cite_ref-POLITICOstop_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-POLITICOstop-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The site has been financed by crowdfunding, readers' contributions, the Renaissance Foundation, <a href="National_Endowment_for_Democracy" title="National Endowment for Democracy">National Endowment for Democracy</a>, <a href="National_Democratic_Institute" title="National Democratic Institute">National Democratic Institute</a>, <a href="German_Marshall_Fund" title="German Marshall Fund">German Marshall Fund</a>, the Foreign Ministry of the <a href="Czech_Republic" title="Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a>, the <a href="Foreign_and_Commonwealth_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign and Commonwealth Office">Foreign Ministry of the United Kingdom</a>, the <a href="Embassy_of_the_United_Kingdom%2C_Kyiv" title="Embassy of the United Kingdom, Kyiv">British Embassy in Ukraine</a>, and the <a href="Sigrid_Rausing_Trust" class="mw-redirect" title="Sigrid Rausing Trust">Sigrid Rausing Trust</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ejo-budivska_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ejo-budivska-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-The_Sigrid_Rausing_Trust_2015_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Sigrid_Rausing_Trust_2015-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2022 <i><a href="Fortune_(magazine)" title="Fortune (magazine)">Fortune</a></i> described it as operating on a "shoestring budget".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>StopFake started as a volunteer effort, but it had 26 paid staff members by 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-niemanlab_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-niemanlab-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ejo-russ_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ejo-russ-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYTstop_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTstop-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="CBS_News" title="CBS News">CBS News</a> reported in February 2022 that it was run by volunteers and journalism students.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In April 2022 <i><a href="The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i> reported that it had 15 employees.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In July 2020, StopFake signed an agreement with National TV and Radio Council on cooperation in monitoring and analyzing disinformation. StopFake is also a third-party fact checker for <a href="Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Piper_2022_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Piper_2022-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stopfake is part of the International Fact-Checking Network, run by the <a href="Poynter_Institute" title="Poynter Institute">Poynter Institute</a>, which sets editorial standards for fact-checking organisations.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2></div>
<p>Olga Yurkova, the founder and editor of StopFake, was included in the 2016 <i>New Europe 100</i> list chosen by the <i><a href="Financial_Times" title="Financial Times">Financial Times</a></i>, <a href="Google" title="Google">Google</a>, <i>Res Publica</i> and <a href="Visegr%C3%A1d_Group" title="Visegrád Group">Visegrád Group</a>. The list recognises central and eastern Europe's brightest and best people.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> StopFake won the "Best Project in Russian Award" in <i><a href="Deutsche_Welle" title="Deutsche Welle">Deutsche Welle</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s 2014 <a href="The_BOBs_(weblog_award)" title="The BOBs (weblog award)">BOBs</a> awards.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><i><a href="The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> wrote in 2017 that StopFake "is highly respected in journalistic circles here in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, for its specialty of debunking fake news", and it "reported some of the biggest nonstories of the war" in Ukraine.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTstop_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTstop-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also in 2017, <i><a href="Politico" title="Politico">Politico</a></i> stated that "the journalism school crew behind StopFake have emerged as the 'grand wizards' of the fake-news-busting world".<sup id="cite_ref-POLITICOstop_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-POLITICOstop-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Freedom_House" title="Freedom House">Freedom House</a> described it as a "gold standard" in exposing fake news, said that its work has become "a model in other Central and Eastern European countries".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 2020, <i>The New York Times</i> reported that despite its commitment to neutral fact-checking, as per Facebook's policy, StopFake was accused of bias in its work.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTFacebook_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTFacebook-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Zaborona_article_alleging_ties_to_far-right_groups">Zaborona article alleging ties to far-right groups</h3></div>
<p>In 2020, the <i>Zaborona</i> website published a report, co-authored by Ukrainian journalist Ekaterina Sergatskova, which accused StopFake of having links with Ukrainian far-right and neo-Nazi groups, such as <a href="S14_(Ukrainian_group)" title="S14 (Ukrainian group)">S14</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Independent_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Independent-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYTFacebook_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTFacebook-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-New_Eastern_Europe_2020_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-New_Eastern_Europe_2020-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The report included that Marko Suprun, host of StopFake's English-language video program, had been shown in social media photographs at a gathering with two musicians from Holocaust-denying white power band Sokyra Peruna and another controversial band <a href="Komu_Vnyz" title="Komu Vnyz">Komu Vnyz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTFacebook_25-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTFacebook-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-New_Eastern_Europe_2020_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-New_Eastern_Europe_2020-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The report also stated that the director and founder of StopFake, Yevhen Fedchenko, had tweeted in defence of S14 on one occasion, spoken against freedom of the press and supported the website <a href="Myrotvorets" title="Myrotvorets">Myrotvorets</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Independent_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Independent-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYTFacebook_25-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTFacebook-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-New_Eastern_Europe_2020_27-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-New_Eastern_Europe_2020-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following this Sergatskova was subjected to online harassment from commentators and hard right figures, including death threats and posting of her personal information, and she left Kyiv, reporting fears for her life.<sup id="cite_ref-Independent_26-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Independent-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-hrw_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hrw-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-rferl_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rferl-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The threats were condemned by StopFake.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTFacebook_25-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTFacebook-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>StopFake said the accusations in the article were untrue, calling the <i>Zaborona</i> article a part of a campaign of slanderous "information attacks" against the project team.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> StopFake said that the use of the photographs to allege far-right connections were employing "guilt by association".<sup id="cite_ref-NYTFacebook_25-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTFacebook-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> StopFake has subsequently signed a statement by media workers calling for a defence of Sergatskova from death threats.<sup id="cite_ref-Independent_26-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Independent-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Coynash_2020_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Coynash_2020-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Данькова_Незалежна_медійна_рада_Інститут_масової_інформації_ГО_«Детектор_медіа»_2020_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Данькова_Незалежна_медійна_рада_Інститут_масової_інформації_ГО_«Детектор_медіа»_2020-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ukrainian Foreign Minister <a href="Dmytro_Kuleba" title="Dmytro Kuleba">Dmytro Kuleba</a> supported StopFake, saying that his ministry observed co-ordinated, systematic attempts by <a href="Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> to undermine the reputation of the fact-checking project.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Media Reforms Center complained to Ukraine's <a href="Independent_Media_Council" title="Independent Media Council">Independent Media Council</a> (IMC) about Zaborona. IMC ruled that the Zaborona story violated three principles of the journalistic code of ethics and "groundlessly and biasedly discredits the StopFake project as a fact-checker, misleading the readers about the mechanism of interaction between the fact-checkers and <a href="Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Незалежна_медійна_рада_2020_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Незалежна_медійна_рада_2020-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="After_2022_Russian_invasion">After 2022 Russian invasion</h3></div>
<p>During the <a href="2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine">2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>, StopFake received attention for its role in combating disinformation. <i>Fortune</i> described it as a "vital force" in protecting Ukraine's efforts against propaganda and disinformation.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2022, StopFake was one of seven Ukrainian outlets that was awarded the Free Media Pioneer award by the <a href="International_Press_Institute" title="International Press Institute">International Press Institute</a><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-IMS_2022_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IMS_2022-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a> announced it would digitally archive the website as a record of Russian propaganda during the war.<sup id="cite_ref-TheOdesaJournal2022_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheOdesaJournal2022-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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</style><div id="Disinformation_and_misinformation167" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Disinformation" title="Disinformation">Disinformation</a> and <a href="Misinformation" title="Misinformation">misinformation</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Core_content167" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Core content</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Disinformation" title="Disinformation">Disinformation</a></li>
<li><a href="Misinformation" title="Misinformation">Misinformation</a></li>
<li><a href="Malinformation" title="Malinformation">Malinformation</a></li>
<li><a href="Propaganda" title="Propaganda">Propaganda</a></li>
<li><a href="Disinformation_attack" title="Disinformation attack">Disinformation attack</a></li>
<li><a href="Disinformation_research" title="Disinformation research">Disinformation research</a></li>
<li><a href="Publications_about_disinformation" title="Publications about disinformation">Publications about disinformation</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Mechanisms167" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Mechanisms</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Psychological</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Cognitive_bias" title="Cognitive bias">Cognitive bias</a>
<ul><li><a href="List_of_cognitive_biases" title="List of cognitive biases">List</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Denialism" title="Denialism">Denialism</a></li>
<li><a href="Manipulation_(psychology)" title="Manipulation (psychology)">Manipulation</a></li>
<li><a href="Misinformation_effect" title="Misinformation effect">Misinformation effect</a></li>
<li><a href="Political_polarization" title="Political polarization">Political polarization</a></li>
<li><a href="Psychology_of_climate_change_denial" title="Psychology of climate change denial">Psychology of climate change denial</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Computational</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Algorithmic_radicalization" title="Algorithmic radicalization">Algorithmic radicalization</a></li>
<li><a href="Content_moderation" title="Content moderation">Content moderation</a></li>
<li><a href="Community_notes" class="mw-redirect" title="Community notes">Community notes</a></li>
<li><a href="Internet_manipulation" title="Internet manipulation">Internet manipulation</a></li>
<li><a href="Social_bot" title="Social bot">Social bot</a></li>
<li><a href="Social_networking_service" title="Social networking service">Social networking service</a>
<ul><li><a href="List_of_social_networking_services" title="List of social networking services">List</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="User-generated_content" title="User-generated content">User-generated content</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Economic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Fake_news_websites" class="mw-redirect" title="Fake news websites">Fake news websites</a></li>
<li><a href="Surveillance_capitalism" title="Surveillance capitalism">Surveillance capitalism</a></li>
<li><a href="Programmatic_advertising" class="mw-redirect" title="Programmatic advertising">Programmatic advertising</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Media and Politics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Audience_fragmentation" title="Audience fragmentation">Audience fragmentation</a></li>
<li><a href="Echo_chamber_(media)" title="Echo chamber (media)">Echo chamber (media)</a></li>
<li><a href="Fake_news" title="Fake news">Fake news</a></li>
<li><a href="Media_bias" title="Media bias">Media bias</a></li>
<li><a href="Media_culture" title="Media culture">Media culture</a></li>
<li><a href="Media_manipulation" title="Media manipulation">Media manipulation</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Tactics167" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Tactics</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Astroturfing" title="Astroturfing">Astroturfing</a></li>
<li><a href="Big_Lie" class="mw-redirect" title="Big Lie">Big Lie</a></li>
<li><a href="Circular_reporting" title="Circular reporting">Circular reporting</a></li>
<li><a href="Clickbait" title="Clickbait">Clickbait</a></li>
<li><a href="Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">Conspiracy theory</a>
<ul><li><a href="List_of_conspiracy_theories" title="List of conspiracy theories">List</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Culture_war" title="Culture war">Culture war</a></li>
<li><a href="Deception" title="Deception">Deception</a></li>
<li><a href="Deepfake" title="Deepfake">Deepfake</a></li>
<li><a href="Disinformation_playbook" class="mw-redirect" title="Disinformation playbook">Disinformation playbook</a></li>
<li><a href="Dog_whistle_(politics)" title="Dog whistle (politics)">Dog whistle (politics)</a></li>
<li><a href="Doublespeak" title="Doublespeak">Doublespeak</a></li>
<li><a href="Doxxing" class="mw-redirect" title="Doxxing">Doxxing</a></li>
<li><a href="Fake_news" title="Fake news">Fake news</a>
<ul><li><a href="Fake_news_website" title="Fake news website">Fake news website</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_fake_news_websites" title="List of fake news websites">List of fake news websites</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_satirical_fake_news_websites" title="List of satirical fake news websites">List of satirical fake news websites</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="False_accusation" title="False accusation">False accusation</a></li>
<li><a href="False_attribution" title="False attribution">False attribution</a></li>
<li><a href="False_balance" title="False balance">False balance</a></li>
<li><a href="Fear%2C_uncertainty%2C_and_doubt" title="Fear, uncertainty, and doubt">Fear, uncertainty, and doubt</a></li>
<li><a href="Firehose_of_falsehood" title="Firehose of falsehood">Firehose of falsehood</a></li>
<li><a href="Forgery_as_covert_operation" title="Forgery as covert operation">Forgery as covert operation</a></li>
<li><a href="Gaslighting" title="Gaslighting">Gaslighting</a></li>
<li><a href="Greenwashing" title="Greenwashing">Greenwashing</a></li>
<li><a href="Historical_negationism" title="Historical negationism">Historical negationism</a></li>
<li><a href="Information_warfare" title="Information warfare">Information warfare</a></li>
<li>Logic and reasoning
<ul><li><a href="Cherry_picking" title="Cherry picking">Cherry picking</a></li>
<li><a href="False_dilemma" title="False dilemma">False dilemma</a></li>
<li><a href="Gish_gallop" title="Gish gallop">Gish gallop</a></li>
<li><a href="Half-truth" title="Half-truth">Half-truth</a></li>
<li><a href="Fallacy" title="Fallacy">Fallacy</a></li>
<li><a href="Formal_fallacy" title="Formal fallacy">Formal fallacy</a></li>
<li><a href="Informal_fallacy" title="Informal fallacy">Informal fallacy</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_fallacies" title="List of fallacies">List of fallacies</a></li>
<li><a href="Quote_mining" class="mw-redirect" title="Quote mining">Quote mining</a></li>
<li><a href="Red_herring" title="Red herring">Red herring</a></li>
<li><a href="Whataboutism" title="Whataboutism">Whataboutism</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Memetic_warfare" title="Memetic warfare">Memetic warfare</a></li>
<li><a href="Pink-slime_journalism" title="Pink-slime journalism">Pink-slime journalism</a></li>
<li><a href="Psychological_warfare" title="Psychological warfare">Psychological warfare</a></li>
<li><a href="Propaganda" title="Propaganda">Propaganda</a>
<ul><li><a href="Black_propaganda" title="Black propaganda">Black propaganda</a></li>
<li><a href="Counterpropaganda" title="Counterpropaganda">Counterpropaganda</a></li>
<li><a href="State-sponsored_Internet_propaganda" title="State-sponsored Internet propaganda">State-sponsored Internet propaganda</a></li>
<li><a href="Perception_management" title="Perception management">Perception management</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Rumors" class="mw-redirect" title="Rumors">Rumors</a></li>
<li><a href="Spin_(propaganda)" title="Spin (propaganda)">Spin (propaganda)</a></li>
<li><a href="Smear_campaign" title="Smear campaign">Smear campaign</a></li>
<li><a href="Scientific_fabrication" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientific fabrication">Scientific fabrication</a></li>
<li><a href="Strategy_of_tension" title="Strategy of tension">Strategy of tension</a></li>
<li><a href="Yellow_journalism" title="Yellow journalism">Yellow journalism</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Related_terms167" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Related terms</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Alternative_facts" title="Alternative facts">Alternative facts</a></li>
<li><a href="Factoid" title="Factoid">Factoid</a></li>
<li><a href="Hoax" title="Hoax">Hoax</a></li>
<li><a href="Infodemic" title="Infodemic">Infodemic</a></li>
<li><a href="Malinformation" title="Malinformation">Malinformation</a></li>
<li><a href="Post-truth_politics" title="Post-truth politics">Post-truth politics</a></li>
<li><a href="Potemkin_village" title="Potemkin village">Potemkin village</a></li>
<li><a href="Pseudoscience" title="Pseudoscience">Pseudoscience</a></li>
<li><a href="Tabloid_journalism" title="Tabloid journalism">Tabloid journalism</a></li>
<li><a href="Truthiness" title="Truthiness">Truthiness</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Targets_and_campaigns167" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Targets and campaigns</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">International Politics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Disinformation_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Disinformation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine">Disinformation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine</a></li>
<li><a href="Misinformation_in_the_Gaza_war" title="Misinformation in the Gaza war">Misinformation in the Gaza war</a></li>
<li><a href="New_World_Order_conspiracy_theory" title="New World Order conspiracy theory">New World Order conspiracy theory</a></li>
<li><a href="Russian_disinformation" title="Russian disinformation">Russian disinformation</a></li>
<li><a href="Genocide_denial" title="Genocide denial">Genocide denial</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Politics by country</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="List_of_disinformation_attacks_by_country" title="List of disinformation attacks by country">List of disinformation attacks by country</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_political_disinformation_website_campaigns" title="List of political disinformation website campaigns">List of political disinformation website campaigns</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Antisemitism</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Holocaust_denial" title="Holocaust denial">Holocaust denial</a></li>
<li><a href="International_Jewish_conspiracy" title="International Jewish conspiracy">International Jewish conspiracy</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Environmental science</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Climate_change_denial" title="Climate change denial">Climate change denial</a></li>
<li>Fossil fuel industry
<ul><li><a href="ExxonMobil_climate_change_denial" title="ExxonMobil climate change denial">ExxonMobil climate change denial</a></li>
<li><a href="Fossil_fuels_lobby" title="Fossil fuels lobby">Fossil fuels lobby</a></li></ul></li>
<li>Leaded gasoline
<ul><li><a href="Ethyl_Corporation" title="Ethyl Corporation">Ethyl Corporation</a></li>
<li><a href="Robert_A._Kehoe" title="Robert A. Kehoe">Robert A. Kehoe</a></li>
<li><a href="Clair_Cameron_Patterson" class="mw-redirect" title="Clair Cameron Patterson">Clair Cameron Patterson</a></li></ul></li>
<li>Pesticide industry
<ul><li><a href="Rachel_Carson" title="Rachel Carson">Rachel Carson</a></li>
<li><i><a href="Silent_Spring" title="Silent Spring">Silent Spring</a></i></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Red_mercury" title="Red mercury">Red mercury</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Medicine and Public health</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="5G_misinformation" title="5G misinformation">5G misinformation</a></li>
<li><a href="Anti-vaccine_activism" title="Anti-vaccine activism">Anti-vaccine activism</a>
<ul><li><a href="Lancet_MMR_autism_fraud" title="Lancet MMR autism fraud">Lancet MMR autism fraud</a></li>
<li><a href="Vaccines_and_autism" title="Vaccines and autism">Vaccines and autism</a></li>
<li><a href="Vaccine_misinformation" title="Vaccine misinformation">Vaccine misinformation</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="COVID-19_misinformation" title="COVID-19 misinformation">COVID-19 misinformation</a>
<ul><li><a href="COVID-19_misinformation_by_governments" title="COVID-19 misinformation by governments">COVID-19 misinformation by governments</a></li>
<li><a href="COVID-19_vaccine_misinformation_and_hesitancy" title="COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and hesitancy">COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and hesitancy</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Misinformation_related_to_birth_control" title="Misinformation related to birth control">Birth control misinformation</a></li>
<li><a href="Ebola_misinformation" title="Ebola misinformation">Ebola misinformation</a></li>
<li><a href="GMO_conspiracy_theories" title="GMO conspiracy theories">GMO conspiracy theories</a></li>
<li><a href="HIV/AIDS_denialism" title="HIV/AIDS denialism">HIV/AIDS denialism</a></li>
<li><a href="Mental_illness_denial" title="Mental illness denial">Mental illness denial</a></li>
<li><a href="Misinformation_related_to_abortion" title="Misinformation related to abortion">Misinformation related to abortion</a></li>
<li><a href="Tobacco_industry_playbook" title="Tobacco industry playbook">Tobacco industry playbook</a></li>
<li><a href="Transgender_health_care_misinformation" title="Transgender health care misinformation">Transgender health care misinformation</a></li>
<li><a href="Opposition_to_water_fluoridation" title="Opposition to water fluoridation">Opposition to water fluoridation</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Journalism and journalists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Safety_of_journalists" title="Safety of journalists">Safety of journalists</a></li>
<li><a href="Maria_Ressa" title="Maria Ressa">Maria Ressa</a></li>
<li><a href="Daily_Maverick" title="Daily Maverick">Daily Maverick</a></li>
<li><a href="Rappler" title="Rappler">Rappler</a></li>
<li><a href="The_Quint" title="The Quint">The Quint</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Countering_disinformation167" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Countering disinformation</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Academic_research" class="mw-redirect" title="Academic research">Academic research</a></li>
<li><a href="Critical_thinking" title="Critical thinking">Critical thinking</a></li>
<li><a href="Digital_literacy" title="Digital literacy">Digital literacy</a></li>
<li><a href="Health_literacy" title="Health literacy">Health literacy</a></li>
<li><a href="Information_literacy" title="Information literacy">Information literacy</a></li>
<li><a href="Media_literacy" title="Media literacy">Media literacy</a></li>
<li><a href="Science_communication" title="Science communication">Science communication</a></li>
<li><a href="Scientific_consensus" title="Scientific consensus">Scientific consensus</a></li>
<li><a href="Scientific_literacy" title="Scientific literacy">Scientific literacy</a>
<ul><li><a href="List_of_climate_change_video_games" class="mw-redirect" title="List of climate change video games">List of climate change video games</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Scientific_skepticism" title="Scientific skepticism">Scientific skepticism</a></li>
<li><a href="Skepticism" title="Skepticism">Skepticism</a></li>
<li><a href="Truth_sandwich" title="Truth sandwich">Truth sandwich</a></li>
<li><a href="Verificado_2018" title="Verificado 2018">Verificado 2018</a></li>
<li><a href="Watchdog_journalism" title="Watchdog journalism">Watchdog journalism</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Fact-checking_and_research167" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Fact-checking and research</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Fact-checking</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li>Websites
<ul><li><a href="List_of_fact-checking_websites" title="List of fact-checking websites">List of fact-checking websites</a></li></ul></li></ul>
<ul><li>Non-profits and charities
<ul><li><a href="Africa_Check" title="Africa Check">Africa Check</a></li>
<li><a href="FactCheck.org" title="FactCheck.org">FactCheck.org</a></li>
<li><a href="Full_Fact" title="Full Fact">Full Fact</a></li>
<li><a href="PolitiFact" title="PolitiFact">PolitiFact</a></li>
<li><a href="USAFacts" title="USAFacts">USAFacts</a></li></ul></li></ul>
<ul><li>Private companies
<ul><li><a href="Logically_(company)" title="Logically (company)">Logically (company)</a></li>
<li><a href="NewsGuard" title="NewsGuard">NewsGuard</a></li>
</ul></li></ul>
<ul><li>Other
<ul><li><a href="Bellingcat" title="Bellingcat">Bellingcat</a></li>
<li><a href="International_Fact-Checking_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="International Fact-Checking Network">International Fact-Checking Network</a></li>
<li><a href="Media_Bias/Fact_Check" title="Media Bias/Fact Check">Media Bias/Fact Check</a></li>
<li><a href="Snopes" title="Snopes">Snopes</a></li>
<li><a href="Quackwatch" title="Quackwatch">Quackwatch</a></li>
<li><a href="Projeto_Comprova" title="Projeto Comprova">Projeto Comprova</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Research</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li>Canada
<ul><li><a href="Citizen_Lab" title="Citizen Lab">Citizen Lab</a></li></ul></li></ul>
<ul><li>EU
<ul><li><a href="East_StratCom_Task_Force" title="East StratCom Task Force">East StratCom Task Force</a></li></ul></li></ul>
<ul><li>Finland
<ul><li><a href="Faktabaari" title="Faktabaari">Faktabaari</a></li></ul></li></ul>
<ul><li>New Zealand
<ul><li><a href="The_Disinformation_Project" title="The Disinformation Project">The Disinformation Project</a></li></ul></li></ul>
<ul><li>UK
<ul><li><a href="Counter_disinformation_unit" title="Counter disinformation unit">Counter disinformation unit</a></li></ul></li></ul>
<ul><li>Ukraine
<ul><li><a href="Center_for_Countering_Disinformation" title="Center for Countering Disinformation">Center for Countering Disinformation</a></li></ul></li></ul>
<ul><li>USA
<ul><li><a href="Active_Measures_Working_Group" title="Active Measures Working Group">Active Measures Working Group</a></li>
<li><a href="Counter_Misinformation_Team" class="mw-redirect" title="Counter Misinformation Team">Counter Misinformation Team</a></li>
<li><a href="Disinformation_Governance_Board" title="Disinformation Governance Board">Disinformation Governance Board</a></li>
<li><i><a href="Countering_Foreign_Propaganda_and_Disinformation_Act" title="Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act">Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act</a></i></li>
<li><a href="United_States_Information_Agency" title="United States Information Agency">United States Information Agency</a></li></ul></li></ul>
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<ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Meta-wiki page"></span></span> <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCred" class="extiw external" title="meta:WikiCred">WikiCred</a></li>
<li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WikiProject"></span></span> Climate change</li>
<li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WikiProject"></span></span> COVID-19</li>
<li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WikiProject"></span></span> Medicine</li>
<li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WikiProject"></span></span> Skepticism</li>
<li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WikiProject"></span></span> Vaccine safety</li></ul>
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