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Disinformation is a persistent challenge in the Western Balkans, where various campaigns often target major events to deepen divisions, undermine trust in democratic institutions, and erode support for Euro-Atlantic integration. Here are…

Canal France International (CFI) is launching the #YouthVsFake – Balkan Youth Poster Competition. This regional initiative is designed to raise awareness about the dangers of disinformation while empowering young people to engage…

The Anti-Disinformation Network for the Balkans (ADN-Balkans) condemns the physical attack on the journalist of the Serbian fact-checking outlet Istinomer that took place on April 15 while she was covering the encampment of pro-government…

By EUvsDisinfo Opinion articles and editorial commentaries on RIA Novosti often border on obvious propaganda. The Russian state-owned news agency uses them to try to convince Russians that countless enemies surround the…

Dear President von der Leyen, Dear Executive Vice-President Ribera, Dear Executive Vice-President Virkkunen, We, the undersigned civil society organisations, trade unions and businesses, urge you to resist political pressure…

As Meta announces end to U.S. fact-checking, program partners warn of a setback for accuracy online and potential global consequences By: The International Fact-Checking Network January 9, 2025 …

The EFCSN strongly condemns Meta’s CEO’s statements linking fact-checking with censorship Platforms retracting  from the fight against mis- and disinformation allows for election interference The EFCSN encourages the…

Learn how to identify and counter disinformation and anti-democratic narratives in the Workshop “Fighting disinformation in Central Europe: showing StopFake’s best practices” on November 6 in Skopje.

Editors should also shift their focus from quantity to quality. Pressing journalists like lemons to produce many stories leaves them with little time to think, reflect, or verify facts. This leads to inaccurate reporting, which erodes…

The Head of International relations at the Hybrid CoE, Tapio Pyysalo talks about the scope of their work, the vulnerabilities of the Western Balkan countries connected with inter-ethnic tensions, the whole-of-society approach that the…

Current FIMI tactics tend to undermine the 2001 Ohrid Framework Agreement, designed to ensure calm relations among ethnic groups, states the analytical report published by Metamorphosis Foundation Being a point of interest for…

As these technologies continue to advance, they pose an increased risk to the truth and trust in the digital age. In the Western Balkan region, where political tensions are already high, these dangers are even more pronounced

Authoritarian states such as Russia and China use various strategies to hinder the Euro-Atlantic integration and to manipulate politics and public opinion in the Western Balkans. This, among other things, was said by Rumena Filipova, the…

As a member of the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN) and the International Fact-Checking Network, Metamorphosis Foundation joins condemnation of the attack against the journalist of Croatian fact-checking service Faktograf.…

Jan Cingel shared an interesting example from Slovakia who said that before the elections in his country, an audio recording generated by AI appeared with the voice of a very well-known Slovakian investigative journalist, supposedly,…

The more believers praise the Russian Church, the greater its influence. Hypothetically, if the Russian Church is “saving our Church”, why wouldn’t the Russian state “save” our country from the bad West that wants to, allegedly, ruin…

The work of professional media is to verify the facts and information it reports. We are witnessing photographs and news shared only to incite conflict between countries and violence, says Klodiana Kapo from Factoje, Albania …