Hybrid.info’s Disinformation About Disinformation

Hybrid.info substitutes authority for evidence, branding journalism as “disinformation” while parroting official denials. This is not fact-checking, it is narrative defence disguised as verification.

There is a revealing irony in the very name Hybrid.info. It announces itself as a guardian against hybrid threats foreign disinformation, malign influence, corrosive propaganda, yet the practice it engages in most consistently is the mirror image of that mission. Its interventions, dressed as fact-checks, bear all the hallmarks of hybrid warfare themselves: selective sourcing, semantic acrobatics, and a studied refusal to confront evidence when it collides with the interests of their benefactors.

Their latest assault¹, labelling The Gunpowder Chronicles’ reporting on the departure of Ambassador Jorn Rohde as “dezinformatë,” is a case study in this inversion.

Let us be precise: our article² did not invent facts, it presented a record—public statements, official correspondence, evasive replies and drew an inference from them. It argued that the Ambassador’s exit, while clothed by Berlin in the polite fiction of “routine rotation,” was in substance a dismissal triggered by sustained scrutin…