Sex, monks and video fakes

How Cambodia’s top human rights activist was driven into exile by a state smear campaign.

• 17 mins

How to be a social media star… without the internet

What’s it like chasing online fame in one of the least connected places on earth?

• 17 mins

Doxxed and hacked In Hong Kong

Who’s behind the shady tactics targeting pro-democracy activists online?

• 17 mins

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

What’s the real story behind allegations of fraud during the US presidential election?

• 17 mins

The truth behind a ‘woke’ Instagram network

Instagram accounts pledging to do good via “brand ambassadors” aren’t all that they seem.

• 17 mins

Votes, viruses, victims: 2020 in disinformation

This year we debunked dozens of online rumours and fake news stories. What happened next?

• 53 mins

The Anti-Vax Files

How anti-vax went viral

How did the anti-vaccine movement explode online during the course of the pandemic?

• 20 mins

The Anti-Vax Files

France’s misinformation fight

Meet the people behind a disinformation battle raging in France.

• 19 mins

The Anti-Vax Files

South Africa's imported 'infodemic'

Meet the female scientists battling misinformation and online propaganda.

• 17 mins

The Anti-Vax Files

Targeting Germany’s youth

Germany’s Querdenken movement opposes vaccines. Now it’s recruiting children.

• 24 mins

The Anti-Vax Files

One woman’s escape from the rabbit hole

How Catherine fell for conspiracy theories - until she turned her scepticism around.

• 27 mins

The Anti-Vax Files

The rise of India’s ‘Covid quack’

India is struggling with Covid – and one man’s dodgy ideas aren’t helping.

• 27 mins

The Anti-Vax Files

Brazil’s bubble of bad information

Why are some Brazilians unable to check information they receive via chat apps?

• 20 mins

The Anti-Vax Files

Vaccine heroes fight back

The pandemic isn’t over – but there are signs that science is beating anti-vaccine lies.

• 18 mins

The anti-vax influencer plot that flopped

Who is behind a secret plot to pay social media stars to falsely discredit Covid vaccines?

• 18 mins

The TikTok news revolution

Why are more people getting their news from an app best known for dance videos?

• 17 mins

Anti-vaxxers only

The Covid activists who are trying to live and love only with other unvaccinated people.

• 18 mins

Who is TikTok’s masked vigilante?

Think you’re safe being an anonymous TikTok troll? Meet your worst nightmare.

• 17 mins

Nesara: The financial fantasy ruining lives

The growing popularity of a conspiracy theory that predicts all debt will be cancelled.

• 19 mins

The cops weaponising copyright

Could your favourite song be used to cover up the misdeeds of the police?

• 18 mins

The Kenyans who help the world to cheat

The Kenyans escaping poverty by helping lazy foreigners to fake their academic work.

• 19 mins

Beirut blast: Looking for Eleni

The hunt for a missing woman in the aftermath of Lebanon’s darkest day.

• 18 mins

The Denial Files

1. The 'd-words' v the planet

Could disinformation and denial sabotage the fight to prevent runaway climate change?

• 17 mins

The Denial Files

2. Big oil in the dock

Is the fossil fuel industry misleading the public about its role in climate change?

• 18 mins

The Denial Files

3. The good science of ‘bad Brazilians’

Do Brazilian leaders really believe in fighting climate change?

• 20 mins

The Denial Files

4. From Covid conspiracy to climate change denial

A movement infected with pandemic conspiracies is now peddling climate change falsehoods

• 18 mins

The Denial Files

5. ‘We fight climate denial on Wikipedia’

Has Wikipedia won its long-running fight against climate change denial and bad science?

• 19 mins

The Denial Files

6. How bad information polluted the climate debate

Unearthing the truth behind some of the biggest pieces of climate change disinformation

• 21 mins

The Denial Files

7. The truth behind Saudi’s eco-city

Saudi Arabia says it’s going green. But will the reality live up to the rhetoric?

• 22 mins

The Denial Files

8. Russia’s climate scepticism problem

How did climate change scepticism go mainstream in Russia?

• 22 mins