List of disinformation attacks by country
Disinformation attacks are media campaigns that deliberately disseminate incorrect information through public media channels and the Internet. In many cases the goal of the disinformation attack is to confuse, paralyze, and polarize an audience.[1][2][3][4] This list is intended for attacks on a national-scale, not for example a local political campaign making claims about a single politician. If adding an item that is not a wikilink to a Wikipedia article, please cite a source.
Listing by country
[edit]Canada
[edit]China, People's Republic of
[edit]Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic
[edit]Germany
[edit]Hungary
[edit]India
[edit]Israel
[edit]Kuwait
[edit]Lithuania
[edit]Mexico
[edit]- Peñabots (2012-~2017)
Philippines
[edit]Russia
[edit]- Russian disinformation in the post-Soviet era
- Cyberwarfare by Russia
- Russian information war against Ukraine (2022-)
- Disinformation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum
- Accusations of Russian interference in the 2024 Romanian presidential election
- Russian Institute for Strategic Studies
- Internet Research Agency (Trolls from Olgino)
- Russian web brigades
Soviet Union
[edit]South Africa
[edit]South Korea
[edit]Turkey
[edit]United Kingdom
[edit]United States
[edit]- 1995 CIA disinformation controversy
- Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election
- Conspiracy theories in United States politics
- COVID-19 misinformation by the United States
- Fake news in the United States
- Election denial movement in the United States
- The Freedom Fighter's Manual
- Habbush letter
- Information Operations Roadmap
- Litter boxes in schools hoax
- Mohamed Atta's alleged Prague connection
- Niger uranium forgeries
- Tobacco industry playbook
- Operation Shocker
- Yellow rain
Venezuela
[edit]Vietnam
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Collado, Zaldy C.; Basco, Angelica Joyce M.; Sison, Albin A. (2020-06-26). "Falling victims to online disinformation among young Filipino people: Is human mind to blame?". Cognition, Brain, Behavior. 24 (2): 75–91. doi:10.24193/cbb.2020.24.05. S2CID 225786653.
- ↑ Hornsey, Matthew J.; Lewandowsky, Stephan (November 2022). "A toolkit for understanding and addressing climate scepticism". Nature Human Behaviour. 6 (11): 1454–1464. doi:10.1038/s41562-022-01463-y. hdl:1983/c3db005a-d941-42f1-a8e9-59296c66ec9b. ISSN 2397-3374. PMC 7615336. PMID 36385174. S2CID 253577142.
- ↑ Frederick, Kara (2019). The New War of Ideas: Counterterrorism Lessons for the Digital Disinformation Fight. Center for a New American Security.
- ↑ Brancati, Dawn; Penn, Elizabeth M (2023). "Stealing an Election: Violence or Fraud?". Journal of Conflict Resolution. 67 (5): 858–892. doi:10.1177/00220027221120595. ISSN 0022-0027.
