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Investigation<\/p><\/div>

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UK anti-abortion charity ran misleading Facebook ads, spend rising tenfold in three years<\/a><\/h2>

In the Observer piece, Manasa Narayanan and Sian Norris uncover how anti-abortion charity Right To Life UK has spent nearly \u00a3190,000 on Facebook ad campaigns in the last three years, putting out misleading ads on the platform, in an attempt to reverse progress of abortion rights in the UK <\/p><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n

In brief<\/h2><\/div>
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investigation<\/p><\/div>

Hate As Bait: The Instagram Network Using Far-Right Content To Lure Users To Porn<\/a><\/h2>

A UK-based pornography company, more than a dozen Instagram pages & hate as bait. Manasa Narayanan investigates. <\/p><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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investigation<\/p><\/div>

News outlet poured money into ads linked to anti-Amber Heard propaganda<\/a><\/h2>

The Daily Wire paid more than $35,000 for Facebook and Instagram ads on stories backing Johnny Depp. Alice McCool tells the story of our investigation for VICE<\/p><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div>\n\n

investigation<\/p><\/div>

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#Ungratefulcow: the truth behind the Nazanin hashtags<\/a><\/h2><\/div><\/div>

Within hours of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release from imprisonment in Iran, #ungratefulcow and #sendherhome were trending on Twitter. Why? Digital media expert Marc Owen Jones finds out who’s behind the hashtags<\/p><\/div><\/div>

investigation<\/p><\/div>

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How ‘sovereign citizen’ ideology found a home in the UK’s anti-vax movement<\/a><\/h2><\/div><\/div>

Britain’s ancient common law system is being called into service by an increasingly aggressive wing of the anti-vax movement<\/p><\/div><\/div>

investigation<\/p><\/div>

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Who\u2019s behind Uganda’s #EndLockdownNow movement?<\/a><\/h2><\/div><\/div>

A new campaign is spreading Covid disinformation in Uganda, supported by conservative groups from the West. Alice McCool of the Citizens reports from Kampala on her joint investigation with Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu of openDemocracy<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Anti-vax groups want to ‘save the children’ \u2013 but what do teens actually want?<\/a><\/h2><\/div><\/div>

As 12-17 year olds are offered the vaccine, UK anti-vaccination networks are gearing up to respond with increasingly extreme actions, the Citizens can reveal<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":1760,"parent":0,"template":"","ctzn_theme":[],"ctzn_investigation_type":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDisinfo Uncovered - The Citizens<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/investigation\/disinfo-uncovered\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Disinfo Uncovered - The Citizens\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/investigation\/disinfo-uncovered\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Citizens\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-20T10:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/QAnonshaman-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1706\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@allthecitizens\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/investigation\/disinfo-uncovered\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/investigation\/disinfo-uncovered\/\",\"name\":\"Disinfo Uncovered - The Citizens\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/investigation\/disinfo-uncovered\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/investigation\/disinfo-uncovered\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/QAnonshaman-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-25T16:52:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-20T10:00:00+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/investigation\/disinfo-uncovered\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/investigation\/disinfo-uncovered\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/investigation\/disinfo-uncovered\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/QAnonshaman-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/QAnonshaman-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1706,\"caption\":\"The 'QAnon Shaman' Jacob Chansley inside the US Capitol Building on 6 January 2021. 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