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RT is laundering Tucker Carlson’s calls for regime change in Canada, annexation as the “51st state,” and stoking Alberta...
04/06/2026

RT is laundering Tucker Carlson’s calls for regime change in Canada, annexation as the “51st state,” and stoking Alberta grievance politics.

This is how foreign propaganda attacks Canadian unity, sovereignty + inflames separation narratives.

RT’s Twitter account has published an edited version of a Tucker Carleson video that suggests that the United States should use force to influence Canada a change in Canada’s government,...

China's embassy in Canada is exploiting MP Michael Ma’s remarks to deny Uyghur forced labour and human rights violations...
03/28/2026

China's embassy in Canada is exploiting MP Michael Ma’s remarks to deny Uyghur forced labour and human rights violations. This is a familiar PRC-CCP propaganda tactic: erase victims and attack witnesses.

A Twitter/X post published on the official account of the Chinese Embassy in Canada exploits Liberal MP Michael Ma’s questioning the use of forced labour to build Chinese electric vehicles...

Former Russian President and RT are pushing Russian neo imperial narratives that target both Estonia’s sovereignty and U...
03/28/2026

Former Russian President and RT are pushing Russian neo imperial narratives that target both Estonia’s sovereignty and Ukraine’s territorial integrity.

The posts connect historical falsification with misogynistic attacks on Kaja Kallas to legitimize Russian revanchism, undermine democratic sovereignty, and punish leaders who resist Kremlin aggression.

Several Kremlin-aligned accounts are pushing a neo-imperialist narrative built on historical manipulation, falsification, and a blatantly misogynistic attack on Kaja Kallas. The campaign follows a familiar Kremlin script: twist Kallas’s...

🔍 FALSE INSINUATION EXPOSED: A piece published on the Russian Pravda Network falsely suggests that the U.S. plans to ta...
02/18/2026

🔍 FALSE INSINUATION EXPOSED: A piece published on the Russian Pravda Network falsely suggests that the U.S. plans to take rare earth processing capacity from Canada’s Neo Performance Materials facility in Estonia.

📉 This narrative misrepresents how global rare earth supply chains operate and wrongly frames geopolitical intent. The Estonian plant — run by Neo Performance Materials — is one of the few rare-earth processors outside China, and factual reporting does not support claims that the U.S. is seeking to “take over” it.

📊 DisinfoWatch’s analysis unpacks how misleading narratives like this spread, why they matter, and the importance of separating fact from fiction in discussions about critical minerals and international cooperation.

🛡️ Stay informed and skeptical — not everything you read about geopolitics and supply chains online reflects reality.

Russia’s Pravda News Network, citing an Izvestia article, mis-quotes Estonia’s Minister of Foreign affairs and falsely insinuates that a Canadian owned rare earth mineral processing plant in Estonia could be...

🚨The pro-Kremlin Pravda network is amplifying false claims about Alberta separatism, including a MAGA fantasy “+2 U.S. s...
02/02/2026

🚨The pro-Kremlin Pravda network is amplifying false claims about Alberta separatism, including a MAGA fantasy “+2 U.S. senators” payoff . Alberta isn’t a U.S. state. Kremlin aligned disinfo targeting Canadian unity.

The Pravda News Network has been identified by France’s Viginum, as the distribution platform for the Russian “Portal Kombat” disinformation operation. The claims in this post are anchored in current...

🚨 DisinfoWatch has identified the Russian-linked Pravda disinformation network amplifying Alberta secessionist events.Pr...
01/26/2026

🚨 DisinfoWatch has identified the Russian-linked Pravda disinformation network amplifying Alberta secessionist events.
Pravda does not produce real journalism. They recycle Kremlin narratives to stoke division and undermine Canada’s cohesion and among allied democratic nations.

  Russia’s Pravda News Network has published what appears to be an AI generated video promoting an Alberta secessionist rally schedule for Monday, January 26, on its Russian VK social...

Donald Trump associate, Steve Bannon, claims Canada is “hostile” to the United States and central to “Hemispheric defenc...
01/18/2026

Donald Trump associate, Steve Bannon, claims Canada is “hostile” to the United States and central to “Hemispheric defence”, echoing a broader Trump aligned narrative that paints Canada as a strategic threat rather than an ally.

In a recent podcast, close Trump associate, Steve Bannon suggested that Canada is both a threat and a “ vital national security interest” to the United States and “these people...

RT falsely claims Canada will declare war on the US over Greenland, allegedly citing PM Mark Carney. This is entirely fa...
01/17/2026

RT falsely claims Canada will declare war on the US over Greenland, allegedly citing PM Mark Carney. This is entirely fabricated. Canada supports Greenland’s sovereignty through diplomacy and not war. It's designed to divide allies and incite panic.

A Twitter/X post on Russian state platform RT, twists Canadian PM Mark Carney’s remarks about supporting Danish/Greenland sovereignty within NATO into a false war declaration. Multiple independent records show Carney...

Russia’s MFA falsely claims NATO is “fueling tensions” in the Arctic a familiar tactical narrative used to blame while...
01/17/2026

Russia’s MFA falsely claims NATO is “fueling tensions” in the Arctic a familiar tactical narrative used to blame while masking Moscow’s own dramatic military buildup + Arctic imperial ambitions. Expect more of this in the coming months.

Kremlin disinformation platform Sputink News, quotes Russia’s Ambassador to Norway, Nikolai Kortunov, who attributes Arctic tension to a “NATO buildup,” omitting Russia’s much larger, long-running Arctic militarization. Independent reporting and...

The Kremlin has declared travel bans on 28 Canadians, falsely labelling them as promoting “neo-Nazis” in a baseless effo...
01/05/2026

The Kremlin has declared travel bans on 28 Canadians, falsely labelling them as promoting “neo-Nazis” in a baseless effort to discredit and silence critics, distort history, and justify aggression. Zero evidence - 100% disinformation.

This TASS and Russian MFA statement is an overt Kremlin information op: a performative “counter-sanctions” list wrapped in a smear that Canadian NGOs and academics “promote neo-Nazism,” plus a recycled...

RT says Mariupol’s theatre “reopened” after a Ukrainian attack. The truth: it was destroyed by a Russian airstrike on ci...
12/30/2025

RT says Mariupol’s theatre “reopened” after a Ukrainian attack. The truth: it was destroyed by a Russian airstrike on civilians. Kremlin disinformation doesn't need facts - it just needs a stage. 🎭

RT has framed the 2022 destruction of Mariupol’s Drama Theater as a “Ukrainian terrorist attack” while touting its reconstruction and repoening. Multiple independent investigations concluded Russian forces bombed the theater,...

The Kremlin claims that Ukraine attacked Putin’s house with drones. Russia offers nothing but empty accusations: 91 dron...
12/30/2025

The Kremlin claims that Ukraine attacked Putin’s house with drones. Russia offers nothing but empty accusations: 91 drones, ZERO evidence.

RT’s cluster of stories presents an unverified alleged drone attack on a Putin residence as fact, then layers on foreign “condemnations,” Kremlin threats of a non-diplomatic response, and a conspiracy-theorist,...

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