A deep-dive report exploring key themes of misinformation related to migrants in under-researched countries: emigration to developed countries in Nigeria and host attitudes to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and Malaysia. These themes were analysed through examples from social media conversations in the three countries concerned to understand the prominence of misinformation in the conversation around migration and the role that it plays in accelerating harmful narratives.

False claims, which may have some grounding in reality and are therefore difficult to counter, feed broader narratives that have the potential to influence perceptions and self-perceptions of immigrants and emigrants as expressed on social media. Until government and tech company policy catches up with the scope and scale of the problem, critical engagement with online information at the individual level seems likely to remain the first and best line of defence against misinformation.