Yerevan31 fabricated stories about Pashinyan circulated in a week, NewsGuard found.
Armenia, pursuing European Union membership, faces reported Russian interference since its June election.
The fakes imitated France 24, Politico, Armenpress and CivilNet, with AI-generated videos alongside fake news sites.
Armenian journalists and activists built iVerify, a platform where users can check information.
The groups’ media-literacy work runs on Digital Spark grants from the Metamorphosis Foundation and TechSoup.
How each outlet framed it
- Global Voices
- frames Armenia's fact-checking platform against Russia's 2023 failure to back Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, as a Digital Spark grantee profile
Sources: Global Voices