“…To date, NewsGuard’s team has identified and is tracking 14 misinformation narratives relating to the 2024 Paris Olympics  in 13 languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish. The claims have spread on social media as well as on 31 unreliable news and information websites.  Sixteen of the 31 sites have a history of publishing false, pro-Russia propaganda and disinformation, including 10 sites that belong to the Pravda network, a group of anonymously-owned sites that republish content from pro-Kremlin sources and frequently advance false or egregiously misleading information. The findings confirm the conclusion of a June 2024 Microsoft Threat Intelligence report that documented what it termed “ongoing Russian influence operations” targeting the Paris Olympic Games, with “two central objectives: to denigrate the reputation of the IOC on the world stage; and to create the expectation of violence breaking out in Paris during the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.” Russia has been banned from the Games after invading Ukraine, although Russian athletes can compete as individuals…”

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