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By Eva Maitland and Madeline Roache
As the war in Ukraine approaches the three-year anniversary of the Russian invasion that launched the conflict, NewsGuard has now identified and debunked 302 false claims relating to the war, nearly all of them originating as Russian propaganda.
These 302 claims appear in NewsGuard’s Misinformation Fingerprints proprietary database of viral false narratives that NewsGuard analysts have identified and debunked. NewsGuard analysts have identified 551 websites spreading these false claims.
Both the content and tactics behind the Russian efforts have evolved since the Feb. 24, 2022, invasion, in both subtle and stark ways.
Among NewsGuard’s findings:
As the war has gone on, Russian disinformation operatives have increasingly turned to artificial intelligence (AI), which has served as a force multiplier for Russian propagandists, both in the scale and persuasiveness of their campaigns. NewsGuard debunked 112 false claims in the first year of the war, one of which was AI, 71 in the second, five of which were AI, and 119 in the third, 16 of which were AI. AI has also facilitated the...
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