Russian propagandists have fabricated a fake poll, falsely attributing it to Britain’s GLPOR.
Russian Telegram channels are circulating results from a so-called “poll” allegedly published by the British company GLPOR. According to this pseudo-study, 62% of Britons supposedly view the 100-year partnership agreement between the UK and Ukraine as a “threat to the interests” of their country.
This claim is false. GLPOR is a fictional sociological firm with a website created solely to publish fabricated polls that serve Russian disinformation campaigns.
The GLPOR website claims it is a British international market and political “research and data analytics” company, “working for the British Government” and “in collaboration with” Oxford University, with headquarters in London. It also claims to have been established in 1998.
However, the GLPOR website cannot be found on any search engine. Reputable global media outlets have never referenced GLPOR’s “polls,” which are only cited by Russian propaganda sources.
The website’s domain was registered in 2023, and its content dates back only to January of that year. To feign credibility, three initial articles were backdated to 2019 and 2020, creating the illusion that the firm has been operational for several years.
In March 2024, Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council’s Center for Countering Disinformation debunked another GLPOR poll, which falsely claimed that 88% of Ukrainians opposed “President Zelensky’s decision to cancel the presidential elections.”
On January 16, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a historic 100-year partnership agreement in Kyiv.
By spreading disinformation about this agreement, Russian propagandists aim to distort facts and misrepresent the signing of this significant document as something harmful.
Previously, Russian propaganda falsely claimed that Slovaks were tearing Ukrainian license plates off vehicles in protest of Ukraine’s suspension of Russian gas transit.
Andriy Olenin
