Download the PDF version of the report HERE. Marcus Kolga, Jennie Phillips, Brian McQuinn, Bartel Van de Walle     EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Foreign adversaries are exploiting the Alberta separatist debate...

Download the PDF version of the report HERE. Marcus Kolga, Jennie Phillips, Brian McQuinn, Bartel Van de Walle     EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Foreign adversaries are exploiting the Alberta separatist debate...

Russian state-controlled media outlet RT amplified comments by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggesting that Germany failed to provide evidence supporting its conclusion that Russian oppositi...

The goal of DisinfoWatch is to build long-term resilience against mis/disinformation in society by exposing instances of such activities and educating the public about how to detect and react when the...

Russian state-controlled media outlet RT amplified comments by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggesting that Germany failed to provide evidence supporting its conclusion that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was...

Russian state-controlled media outlet RT amplified comments by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggesting that Germany failed to provide evidence supporting its conclusion that Russian oppositi...

A U.S. political commentator, and former Fox News host, Trish Regan,  is promoting the idea that Alberta could leave Canada and join the United States while misrepresenting key facts about...

A U.S. political commentator, and former Fox News host, Trish Regan,  is promoting the idea that Alberta could leave Canada and join the United States while misrepresenting key facts about...

This edition of DisinfoDigest highlights how foreign and foreign-linked actors continue to exploit political divisions, democratic debates and international crises using a mix of state media, influenc...

The publisher of a Moscow based, Kremlin aligned blog, Dances with Bears, John Helmer, republished an anonymous, unverified “airport employee” narrative (via Anatoliy Shariy) implying the Leipzig/Halle explosive-drone incident was...

The publisher of a Moscow based, Kremlin aligned blog, Dances with Bears, John Helmer, republished an anonymous, unverified “airport employee” narrative (via Anatoliy Shariy) implying the Leipzig/Hall...

In a video posted to YouTube and viewed 230,000 times, American political influencer Benny Johnson focuses on and openly encourages Alberta separatism, portraying the breakup of Canada as a victory...

In a video posted to YouTube and viewed 230,000 times, American political influencer Benny Johnson focuses on and openly encourages Alberta separatism, portraying the breakup of Canada as a victory...

Download the PDF version of the report HERE. Marcus Kolga, Jennie Phillips, Brian McQuinn, Bartel Van de Walle     EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Foreign adversaries are exploiting the Alberta separatist debate...

Download the PDF version of the report HERE. Marcus Kolga, Jennie Phillips, Brian McQuinn, Bartel Van de Walle     EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Foreign adversaries are exploiting the Alberta separatist debate...

Russian state-controlled media outlet RT has repurposed and amplified remarks by U.S. Vice-President JD Vance falsely portraying Canada as one of the world’s leading “tariff” and “trade violators,” wh...

Russian state-controlled media outlet RT has repurposed and amplified remarks by U.S. Vice-President JD Vance falsely portraying Canada as one of the world’s leading “tariff” and “trade violators,” wh...

Marcus Kolga is a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and founder of DisinfoWatch. Ever since Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale war against Ukraine, the Kremlin has justified its unprovoked invasion as a “special military operation” to “de-Nazify” a democratic country led by a Jewish President, Volodymyr Zelensky. Nearly five years into a war that has killed more than 16,000 civilians, wounded tens of thousands more and torn more than 20,000 children from their families, Mr. Putin continues to offer up this false claim. The Russian President’s “de-Nazification” fraud depends on one of the Kremlin’s most enduring historical lies: a carefully constructed version of the Soviet Union’s relationship with Nazi Germany in which Moscow was only ever an innocent victim of fascism, surrounded by predators determined to destroy it. The history that Mr. Putin needs us to forget begins on Aug. 23, 1939, when Joseph Stalin signed a treaty with Adolf Hitler that divided Central and Eastern Europe between them. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and its secret protocols cleared the way for Hitler’s invasion of Poland from the west on Sept. 1, and Stalin’s invasion from the east on Sept. 17. Days later, German and Soviet forces met at Brest-Litovsk, marking...

BOTTOM LINE: There remains no credible public evidence that Ukraine operated a U.S.-backed biological weapons program. A newly released slide deck from the Office of the Director of National Intellige...

RUSSIA'S INFORMATION WAR, JULY 27 – AUGUST 2, 2026

Summary RT published an article promoting Tucker Carlson’s appearance on its East Meets West program, presenting his claim that the United States is already “at war with Russia” as the...