Bots, Right Wings and Radicals: How did the fake news about Chinese restaurants being burned in Kazakhstan spread on social media
The events that happened in the Kordai district of Kazakhstan gave an impetus to the dissemination of fake information amongst the foreign segments of social-ne...
6 myths about measles and vaccination against it
Kazakhstan ranks third in the world among countries where measles in 2019 spreads much faster comparing to the last year. The situation with the control of the ...
How Fact-Checking Can Win the Fight Against Misinformation
Peter Cunliffe-Jones, Laura Zommer and Will Moy — leaders and founders of fact-checking organizations in Africa, Latin America, and Europe — about win...
Photo and video geolocation: how to work with satellite images and maps
Satellite maps and images caused a revolution in investigative journalism. 15 years ago, we had to rely blindly on the photo and video evidence provided by anyo...
Fake | Prestigious schools of England switched to the Soviet education system
The news that the most prestigious and modern schools in England have switched to the Soviet system of education has been worrying network users for several mon...
The Nation Leader’s farm: who manages the bot and troll networks in Kazakhstan
(This investigation originally published on this website in Russian and Kazakh on April 2019. Authors: Pavel Bannikov and Victoria Lee) Nurbots (male) is a phen...
Fact-check: Does cough could save you from heart-attack?
“Please pause for 2 minutes and read it! Imagine that it is 19.15 pm and you are going home (of course, alone) after an unusually hard day at work. You are very...
10 dormant diseases: what the threats of rejection of vaccinations
Recently, WHO included a rejection of vaccines to the list of major threats to humanity, along with Ebola, HIV and air pollution. We analyze the vaccination cal...
Manipulation │ Tokayev: Kazakhstan occupies one of the leading places in the world in the fight against corruption
On April 26, 2019, during a public meeting, the current president of Kazakhstan, Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev, stated that Kazakhstan occupies one of the leading place...
Fake | Iceland recognizes religion as a weapon of mass destruction
On March 12, a curious material was published on the Yandex Zen platform called “Iceland accepts the declaration: all religions are weapons of mass destruction....