The spread of fake websites by the Russian disinformation campaign Doppelganger has largely been stopped. The people behind the campaign had been using a Ukrainian service provider – which quickly blocked the Russian customer after a CORRECTIV inquiry. Doppelganger’s digital footprints meanwhile lead directly to the Ministry of Defense in Moscow.

For two years, Russia has been spreading its propaganda using cloned websites of Western media outlets. The campaign known as “Doppelganger” hasn’t been stopped yet – despite being sanctioned by the EU and US. A CORRECTIV investigation found that European companies are part of the internet infrastructure that keeps the campaign running.

Since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has stepped up disinformation and hacking campaigns against the West. A CORRECTIV investigation shows how two brothers from Moldova provide the technology needed for these attacks.

We asked three of the best-known AI chatbots multiple questions on the upcoming EU elections and international politics. Our experiment shows: Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT fail when it comes to answering political questions. They make false statements about candidates or fabricate sources. Depending on the language, the bots also provide very different answers.

A network of fake accounts on Facebook is agitating against Ukraine and has been sharing fake pro-Russian articles and websites for months. Politicians of the far-right party Alternative für Deutschland seem to also benefit: the network ran ads to promote content by the party’s politicians.

Despite Facebook’s supposed takedown last year, a pro-Russian disinformation campaign continues to be active on the social-media platform. It is promoting spoofed news and government websites, as well as content by politicians of Germany’s far-right AfD party.

A network of fake news sites has been flooding Europe with disinformation and propaganda against Ukraine for months. Reports uncovered websites that mimicked media outlets like Bild and Spiegel. But it doesn’t stop there. Research by CORRECTIV.Faktencheck shows that the Russian campaign also entails forged government documents.

In March the EU banned Russian broadcasters. Among them RT, formerly known as Russia Today. Since then, its German version RT DE has been advertising digital loopholes to work around its suspension. Above all: mirror pages, dozens of them. Why have the responsible German authorities not managed to shut them down?