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Colombia’s guerrilla recruitment video problem

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The Kenyan influencer championing climate denial

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Is Russia targeting Poland's farmers’ protests?

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Love and deception in the age of AI

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Long Covid: Think yourself well?

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The anti-vax candidate?

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Democracy on the brink in Tunisia?

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The new fight for land rights

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Fear and conspiracies in Las Vegas

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The disinformation war in the Middle East

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The Mexican mayor and a deepfake scandal

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Crude fakes in Uganda

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Serbia’s real life ‘bots’

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Exposing people smugglers

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The Voice: conspiracies and Australia's referendum

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Trolled by a life coaching cult

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Inside America’s political battleground

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India's latest 'love trap'

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TikTok frenzies

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How to exit the manosphere

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The germ deniers

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The AI ghosts haunting TikTok

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Venezuelan deepfakes and propaganda

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Who’s trolling successful Asian women?

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Trolled by a life coaching cult

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Ghouling: The trolls targeting bereaved people

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Brazil’s real life trolls

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Twitter ‘ninjas’ against climate denial

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Myanmar’s digital battleground

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Elon Musk's Twitter storm

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How humanitarian crises are exploited online

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Cash for conspiracy theories

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Akon’s Wakanda and a crumbling crypto dream

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Med beds: Miracle cure or misinformation?

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SafeMoon and the chaotic world of crypto

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India’s anti-MLM movement

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The influencer and the insider: Chinmark's demise

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The 'Alan MacMasters’ toaster hoax

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Roe v Wade: The next battle

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Political influencers for hire – in Kenya

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Can MrBeast help fix climate change?

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The strange story of QAnon in Japan

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The misrule of Canada’s QAnon queen

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Russian QAnon and the Ukraine dilemma

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Has QAnon fuelled South Africa’s divisions?

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QAnon at the ballot box

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India’s alt-right 'trads'

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The online boom in climate doom

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Gaming Brazil's election

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Confessions of an election troll in the Philippines

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Tortured for tweeting?

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Ghana's free speech crackdown

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Defecting online: How soldiers are deserting the Burmese army

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War scams: The criminals exploiting conflict in Ukraine

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8. Russia’s climate scepticism problem

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7. The truth behind Saudi’s eco-city

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6. How bad information polluted the climate debate

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5. ‘We fight climate denial on Wikipedia’

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4. From Covid conspiracy to climate change denial

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3. The good science of ‘bad Brazilians’

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2. Big oil in the dock

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1. The 'd-words' v the planet

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Beirut blast: Looking for Eleni

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The Kenyans who help the world to cheat

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The cops weaponising copyright

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Nesara: The financial fantasy ruining lives

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Who is TikTok’s masked vigilante?

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Anti-vaxxers only

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The TikTok news revolution

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The anti-vax influencer plot that flopped

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Vaccine heroes fight back

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Brazil’s bubble of bad information

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The rise of India’s ‘Covid quack’

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One woman’s escape from the rabbit hole

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Targeting Germany’s youth

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South Africa's imported 'infodemic'

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France’s misinformation fight

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How anti-vax went viral

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Votes, viruses, victims: 2020 in disinformation

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The truth behind a ‘woke’ Instagram network

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The roots of Donald Trump’s ‘voter fraud’ strategy

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Doxxed and hacked In Hong Kong

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How to be a social media star… without the internet

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Sex, monks and video fakes

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Help! My mum is a conspiracy influencer

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Disinfo wars and the all-American ‘troll farm’

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QAnon and the rabbit hole election

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Did a state news agency troll its critics?

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Why do some influencers back bad products?

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QAnon and on and on

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The online heroes of the coronavirus pandemic

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How to talk about conspiracy theories

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Who spread the ‘5G coronavirus’ conspiracy theory?

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The scammers promising poison on Facebook

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Can viral videos stop police brutality?

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The children’s video game that turned toxic

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Are Instagrammers ruining nature?

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The human cost of viral misinformation

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Inside the world of the meninists