What’s the final score? An overview of Russian disinformation about the 2024 Olympics

Our team has identified at least 38 fake news stories about the 2024 Paris Olympic Games that circulated online since the start of the year, most of them thought to have been manufactured by Russia – from made-up terrorist threats to fictional attacks on athletes to fake media reports. Even though some of these fake news items were widely read, none of them really had an impact on the public debate. To mark the end of the Games, we took a look back at the Russian disinformation campaign on the 2024 Paris Olympics, which never really took hold.