Russia-Ukraine war: Canadians encountering disinformation on social media 2022
According to a 2022 report conducted in Canada, 35 percent of social media users had encountered the claim that Ukrainian nationalism is a neo-Nazi movement, and one of the goals of Russia’s 'Special Operation' in Ukraine is to 'demilitarize and denazify' Ukraine. Overall, 31 percent of social media users have seen the claim that Russia is defending ethnic Russians in Ukraine, and a quarter of users stated that they had encountered the claim that the United States has a network of biological weapons labs in Ukraine.
