🧩 BND Motif Index · M143
Disinformation campaign
A coordinated campaign plants fake stories to mislead the public and turn people against a side.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Information integrity🗂️ Political manipulation
- 13claims filed under it
- 3left shows it came up on
- 4center shows it came up on
- 2right shows it came up on
- 5claims retold online
- 3fact-checkers
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
⤵️ under it: 🧩 Fake news 🧩 The big lie
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Lying media 🧩 Misinformation amplification 🧩 Misinformation spread 🧩 Ratf*cking 🧩 Smear campaign
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 French protests escalate with violent clashes and property damage 2026-10-19 to 2026-10-20
- 📰 FlyDubai co-pilot attacked captain with crash axe in attempted terrorist attack 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-07
- 📰 Polling firm admits to fabricating data 2026-10-21 to 2026-10-23
- 📰 Montenegro detains head of russian war blog rybar 2026-10-09 to 2026-10-10
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-25 “MAGA Republicans use lies and disinformation to win.”
🎙️ Politico Playbook 🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-25 “Donald Trump is peddling false claims about election fraud to undermine Democratic officials.”
🎙️ Pod Save America 🎙️ Bannon's War Room 🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) 🎙️ 1A (WAMU/NPR) 🎙️ Forum (KQED) - 2026-10-24 “An entity is impersonating a transgender advocacy group by sending mailers to Texas families to influence voters.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-23 “A fake polling organization released fraudulent results for a Michigan Democratic Senate primary.”
🎙️ NPR Politics Podcast - 2026-10-23 “The Obama administration used intelligence agencies and the DNC to manufacture a fake dossier against Donald Trump.”
🎙️ Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words - 2026-10-22 “The Department of Homeland Security is attempting to project an image of widespread voter fraud.”
🎙️ Forum (KQED) - 2026-10-21 “Republicans are using deceptive mailers and texts about transgender rights to lie to voters and stoke fear.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-20 “Russian trolls and foreign actors are orchestrating social unrest and violence in Europe.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-15 “The right-wing is promoting lies to make their enemies seem evil and their followers enjoy being lied to.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-13 “Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centers destroyed Russian bot farms, causing a decrease in MAGA, far-right German, and health-related social media activity.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-10 “Montenegro detained the founder of a pro-Kremlin war blog, the founder of the pro-Kremlin war blog Rybar, along with his wife and three others, on suspicion of attempting to destabilize the country.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-02 “NewsGuard reported that the Democratic Party orchestrated an attempted terrorist attack on FlyDubai Flight FZ1073.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-09-29 “Russia hijacks trusted media brands to spread false news.” 🔎 NewsGuard Reality Check
M143 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works