The Kraków Attack and the Disinformation Machine: How Far-Right Networks Are Distorting the Truth In the aftermath of the tragic attack in Kraków that claimed the life of a 25-year-old man named Michał O., a disturbing parallel battle is unfolding across Poland’s digital landscape. While the nation mourns and grapples with the shock of violence in its historic city, a coordinated disinformation campaign is working feverishly to rewrite the narrative of what happened and who was responsible. The attacker, evidence increasingly suggests, was motivated by far-right extremist ideology. Yet across social media platforms, a network of domestic extremists and their…

A young woman set out on what should have been an ordinary errand: she was following her boyfriend in her own car as the two drove to a body shop to repair a broken taillight on his vehicle. She was seventeen, still navigating the small indignities and freedoms of late adolescence, and she trusted that a police officer pulling over her boyfriend would be a routine event, no more than a brief interruption on the way to an appointment. Instead, according to a federal lawsuit filed Friday, that drive ended in violence, chaos, and lasting trauma. The lawsuit names former…