The Rohingya people, who make up the largest refugee population in Malaysia, are currently facing a dangerous surge of hostility fueled by calculated disinformation. With over 126,000 Rohingya having sought sanctuary in the country after fleeing extreme violence and persecution in Myanmar, they often find themselves at the center of inflammatory online narratives. Recently, a fabricated story went viral across platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, baselessly claiming that two million babies have been born from marriages between Rohingya refugees and local Malaysians. This malicious narrative, designed to stoke fears of resource exploitation and citizenship manipulation, uses a doctored news…

The psychological landscape of modern warfare is often just as destructive as the physical theater of combat. Recently, the Center for Countering Disinformation under Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council revealed a chilling, large-scale propaganda campaign orchestrated by Russia. This coordinated effort is designed to provide a veneer of justification for the terrifying escalation of missile and drone strikes hitting the heart of Kyiv. By systematically dehumanizing infrastructure and rewriting reality, these disinformation campaigns serve a dark purpose: they attempt to transform deliberate acts of terror against innocent civilians into calculated, “necessary” military maneuvers, stripping away the global moral outrage…