disinformation

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…

As Russia’s war against Ukraine has marked two grim milestones – 4000 days since the initial invasion in 2014 and 1000 days since the full-scale invasion in February 2022 – a comprehensive analysis reveals how the Kremlin has systematically…

In focus of the reporting on foreign political topics related to global geopolitics and safety in the recent period, two topics dominated—the BRICS summit and the presence of South Korean troops in Russia. That said, the topic of BRICS…

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.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is once again the target of disinformation for allegedly spending money intended for the Ukrainian Army. This time, it is claimed he bought the famous Mercedes-Benz 770, whose most famous owner was…

Was Bill Gates indicted in the Netherlands for lying to the public about the COVID-19 vaccine?! Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are! Republished from: TECHARP Claim: Bill Gates was…

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…

Numerous international organizations, as well as fact-checkers from Ukraine agree that on the Internet, especially on Telegram, unreliable, staged video materials with paid actors have been created, with the sole purpose of undermining the…

Disinformation targeting Harris is distinctive not only because it consists of falsehoods, but also because it is gender-specific, infused with stereotypes and prejudices that undermine a woman’s ability to attain a high position. What…

In June 2023, France exposed an extensive Russian disinformation campaign called Recent Reliable News (RRN), named after a pro-Russian website. Earlier in February, the French government warned about a network of about 200 portals that…

Russian propaganda tried to portray the fact that the Ukrainian government banned the Moscow-affiliated Orthodox Church as a “persecution of Christians” and as a tendency of the West, which supports Ukraine, to destroy Orthodoxy and the…

It’s not very difficult to note that every other post on the website is anti-Western and portrays Western countries as unjust, controversial and full of crime. Conspiracy theories aimed at fostering disruption and uncertainty among citizens…

Taken and translated from the Serbian version of Sputnik, the Facebook post twists the truth and spreads several pieces of disinformation. To begin with, it quotes a former Japanese diplomat, whose views by no means reflect the official…

Back in early June, Microsoft warned that Russia is waging a malign disinformation campaign aimed at the Paris Olympics and the French President Emmanuel Macron. According to their information, the influence operations include fabricated…

The topic of climate is fertile soil for spreading disinformation. Denying the existence of global warming, conspiracy theories claiming the climate change is a tool in the hands of secret societies or powerful individuals in order to…

The EU, along with Germany, NATO, the USA, and Ukraine, places a strong emphasis on human rights, fundamental freedoms, and the protection of minorities. The EU has mechanisms to support these principles, such as the European Court of Human…

The Defense Ministry of France denied that it sent troops to Ukraine when such disinformation on this topic started spreading on the social networks stimulated by Russian sources and their propagandists