Are We Europe Issue 12 – Online Lies, Offline Lives

Are We Europe aims to report on the often neglected and ever-changing state of the European identity by empowering aspiring European journalists who are motivated to explore this topic.

What are the offline consequences of online lies? Read the stories of people who have gone “down the rabbit hole” of parallel realities and conspiracies.

From the diary of a Ukrainian troll hunter, to a love affair with a conspiracy theorist, the stories in this magazine illustrate how disinformation has an increasingly powerful hold over our lives.

Featured stories

• Tall, dark and conspiratorial

• Inside the small town satanic cult that didn’t exist

• Diary of a Ukrainian troll hunter

Photoseries and visual essays

• Trinkets of spirituality

• Gendered disinformation and female public figures

• Don’t worry, buy happy | infographic