Do Russia's 2026 election results show support for war? Claim: The victory of the pro-government United Russia party in the Russian State Duma elections and the high voter turnout show that citizens approved of the country's foreign policy and the war against Ukraine. Conclusion: Not confirmed. Official results show how many votes the electoral authorities attributed to parties and candidates. They do not reliably measure public attitudes toward the war.

The booklet was prepared within the framework of the "Monitoring Disinformation Flows" project by the Human Rights International (HRI) Armenia organization. The main goal of the project is to increase the level of media literacy, support journalists and young professionals in more effectively recognizing, analyzing, and countering disinformation flows in the modern information environment. MONITORING OF DISINFORMATION FLOWS Educational and practical manual for journalists, researchers and civil society representatives Monitoring

The video, which was posted on the “Public News” Facebook page on September 20, has garnered more than 141,000 views and has been presented as a “scandalous revelation” by Alexander Lapshin. However, in the video, Lapshin’s actual statement is rewritten in a significantly different way; the most important difference is the case of Gevorg Sujyan. The day after the publication, on September 19, Sujyan announced that his application against Azerbaijan

In early September, a statement attributed to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan spread on social media, which referred to Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, relations between Armenia and Russia, and the topic of holding a referendum. According to the circulating publication, Pashinyan, referring to Russia’s alleged coercion of Armenia to hold a referendum, said: “I am not the president of Kazakhstan to be summoned to Russia. And we are not rich

The presence of the Russian 102nd military base in Armenia has been presented for decades as a crucial component of Armenia's security system. At the same time, in recent years, opposing claims have been heard more frequently: that the base has not fulfilled its primary mission, is no longer useful to Armenia, and should be withdrawn. Russian 102nd Military Base in Armenia: A Security Guarantee, Fact-Check Research, or a Non-Working

Why does false information spread so quickly on social media? Social networks as an accelerator of disinformation One of the reasons is the algorithms of social networks. Platforms track what we watch, what we linger on, what we like, comment on, or share. If a piece of content gets a lot of traction, the algorithm can show it to more people. But here's an important thing: the algorithm doesn't decide

The Armenian nuclear power plant, the Metsamor NPP, has been a key link in Armenia’s energy security for decades. At the same time, contradictory claims are circulating around it: that the plant is “extremely dangerous and should be closed immediately,” that it has “never been damaged by an earthquake and is completely safe,” that “the European Union demands its immediate closure,” or, conversely, that the closure of the plant is

During the June 2026 elections to the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, numerous false and manipulative information regarding the work of polling stations and the organization of voting was spread on social networks, especially Telegram channels. The myths of the Kveakhtsi: how they convinced us that our vote was visible and the polling stations were controllable   Some of these messages tried to convince people that it was