1/4 🧵 What if we actually enforced the EU Digital Services Act? @aidanobrien.bsky.social from EDMO Ireland explored this question at the EDMO BELUX 2.0: Countering Disinformation, Raising Democratic Resilience conference, held at the Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies on 7 September.

* How the Romanian governmental crisis was coordinately amplified on Facebook * Monitoring Media Pluralism 2026: Indicators and Findings on the Media Landscape in Bulgaria * Some publications make a misleading comparison between water prices in Bulgaria and Israel

🛡️ #Election related #disinformation remains a major challenge to #democracy. Monitoring and countering it marks a key objective for EDMO and its Hubs that cover 30 European countries – but what does this look like in practice? 1/4

The June issue of our newsletter is here, and you can view the previous eight issues in the archive of the Bulgarian-Romanian Digital Media Observatory’s monthly newsletter in the archive. 🇷🇴 🇧🇬 🇪🇺 brodhub.eu/en/newsletter

In the latest Weekly Pulse: 🔥Social media posts seem to be the amplifiers of violent and riots in Dublin, Belfast and England. 👉 But also disinformation around elections in Latvia and Armenia, online harassment of politicians and much more. Read this edition: tinyurl.com/3kb9fp7a

📕 𝗘𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱: why are #factchecking and #communitynotes not interchangeable – and why should we care? 👉 Take a look at the new special issue of Communication & Society, co-edited by @salaverria.es @iberifier.bsky.social: revistas.unav.edu/index.php/co...

On May 29th, a drone hit a residential apartment block in Romania. BROD's 🇷🇴 partner Funky Citizens monitored more than 14,000 social media posts and identified two coordinated networks amplifying alarmist and misleading narratives related to the event. Read their report: brodhub.eu/en/research/...

The Galați Drone Incident: What Happened Online Before and After the Drone Struck a Residential Building

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The 🇷🇴🇧🇬🔭 BROD's monthly newsletter latest issue is now published and can be found here together with the previous issues highlighting activities, innitiatives, results, fact-checks, media literacy resources produced under BROD 2. Subsribe and follow our work: brodhub.eu/en/newsletter/

Research, events, fact-checks, and educational materials in English, Romanian and Bulgarian in the April issue of the monthly newsletter of the Bulgarian-Romanian Digital Media Observatory. Subscribe and don't miss out on the highlights of BROD's work brodhub.eu/en/newsletter/

Forty-six students participated in DisInfoHack 2026, divided into seven teams. They were joined by the special team of winners from DisInfoHack 2025, who presented a report titled Narrative Hunters. brodhub.eu/en/news/the-...

The American University team "Sixth Sense" lead by AFP Fact Check reporter Bozhidar Angueloff won Disinfohack 2026. Re-watch the grand finale here

Published Tuesday 28 April 2026 at 12:53

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The round table is part of the regional project Strengthening Democratic Media in the Black Sea Region, supported by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and implemented in partnership with Agence France-Presse (@afp.com @factcheck.afp.com) with the support of the BROD.

AI and political propaganda: a public round table about tools, networks and influence

Published Saturday 11 April 2026 at 15:18

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The Justice Ministry and an independent expert rejected online claims that Bill C-9 will "criminalize the Bible," telling AFP that the bar for what constitutes hate speech has been set intentionally high based on court rulings. Read more: u.afp.com/SEJA

🛑 Chatbots are not fit for giving voting advice 🗳️ Latest study from @liberties.eu on the Hungarian election shows lack of transparency and reliability in the advice. Our research shows that 10-15% by now use chatbots for advice, for young voters up to one quarter. www.liberties.eu/en/stories/h...

Our partners @csdbuildbridges.bsky.social are monitoring the information environment in Bulgaria during the current campaign for the parliamentary elections on 19 April. You can now read their first report, that presents and explains trends identified in the last two months. brodhub.eu/en/research

The @edmo-eu.bsky.social brings together more than 70 fact-checking organizations and fact-checking is one of the three core areas of the network of centers committed to the information integrity and resilience of the European Union. Thank you, dear colleagues, we salute you! 🇪🇺

European Commission@ec.europa.eu · 6mo ago

Looks like a fact. Turns out it’s fake. With AI-generated content, deepfakes, and increasingly convincing misleading content, it’s becoming harder than ever to tell what’s real from what’s not. And no matter how informed we think we are, none of us are immune.

Happy International Fact-Checking Day! Check out these highlights from our digital investigation annual report👇

The March issue of BROD's monthly newsletter is now available: brodhub.eu/en/newslette... There are fact-checks in Romanian and Bulgarian, but also reports and news articles around events and initiatives. The previous issues are also there, in the Archive tab.

General elections are scheduled to be held in Denmark on 24 March 2026, and in less than a month parliamentary elections are to be held in Hungary and in Buglaria. And there are more coming later in 2026, so this warning is relevant and timely for much more MSs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...

NORDISHub@nordishub.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Candidates in Denmark’s upcoming general election are making it “as easy as possible for foreign actors” to target them by exposing personal data online. According to a cybersecurity researcher the findings are serious in a geopolitical context www.nordishub.eu/danish-autho...

Disinformation narratives evolve and reflect the zeitgeist (the spirit of the times), but the more examples people see, the more likely they are to recognize them on their own next time and understand where they are vulnerable to. Don't miss out @edmo-eu.bsky.social's #monthlybriefs

European Digital Media Observatory@edmo-eu.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🏋🏼🇺🇦 Four years after Russia’s invasion, pro-Russian #disinformation about #Ukraine persists across Europe and jumps on any occasion – including the #MilanoCortina2026 #WinterOlympics. 👉 Take a look at the latest disinformation developments in Europe in our latest brief: edmo.eu/publications...

A new report by the BROD partner Center for the Study of Democracy provides an anticipatory threat assessment for the April and November 2026 votes, drawing on its extensive Kremlin Playbook research & methodology, network & algorithmic analysis, and narrative monitoring. brodhub.eu/en/research/...

Случаят „Петрохан-Околчица“ – изследване на възприятията за медийно-информационната среда в България през призмата на медийната грамотност: forms.gle/H5NxDRd7qaCt...

Learn all the details about this inspiring initiative and how closely it aligns with BROD's dimensions and objectives here 👉 brodhub.eu/en/news/disi...

DisinfoHack 2.0: the second edition of the 'slow' hackathon to combat disinformation kicks off on March 23

Published Monday 23 February 2026 at 17:07

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Nine publications – three in English, three in Romanian, and three in Bulgarian – are featured in the newly published February edition of BROD's monthly newsletter: brodhub.eu/en/newslette...

Two documentaries were screened during the first evening of the series "Europe: Landmarks and Values in a Chaotic World," held on February 17 at the French Institute in Sofia – Maya Dimitrova's Architects of Chaos and ARTE's Data Sources. Watch them online, following the links in the comments:

Data Sources - Who Are the Social Media Fraudsters? - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English

They sell hacked profiles, provide fake comments and likes and boost fake news. Investigation into the social media fraudsters based in Vietnam.

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Established on 26.08.2025, the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI serves as the first global scientific body on AI, bringing together leading experts with the international expert on children’s rights in digital contexts Sonia Livingstone among them. www.un.org/independent-...

While 85% of Europeans agree tackling climate change should be a priority to improve public health, a 2023 study found unchallenged climate misinformation in the mainstream media reached 4.4 bln. people in 6 months. Learning from and promoting the Climate Facts Matter Handbook can make a difference.

European Digital Media Observatory@edmo-eu.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🌎 If we seek 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 #𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, we must strengthen public resilience to 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 #𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. 👉 That's why we're pleased to share the #ClimateFactsMatter campaign by @euclimateaction.bsky.social, incl. a digital handbook co-created w/ experts from EDMO + EDMO Hubs: edmo.eu/edmo-news/cl...

Някои от важните изводи в три доклада на Globsec за Румъния 🇲🇩, Молдова 🇷🇴 и България 🇧🇬, представени в сравнителен план чрез данни, визулизирани с помощта на ИИ на Google. Пълните доклади – ключов страком ресурс и за трите държави, както и за институциите на ЕС – са закачени в коментари.

Instagram users in the treatment group were significantly and substantially better than the control group in correctly identifying emotional manipulation in a news headline. 💡The treatment effect remained stable at the group-level for 5 months. misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/preb...

Prebunking misinformation techniques in social media feeds: Results from an Instagram field study | HKS Misinformation Review

Boosting psychological defences against misleading content online is an active area of research, but transition from the lab to real-world uptake remains a challenge. We developed a 19-second prebunki...

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Rig It is an engaging, free, browser-based educational game similar to Go Viral!, Bad News, Harmony Square and Cat Park that can be played in under 10 minutes. All content was created under the concept and supervision of @globsec.bsky.social and DROG. #inoculation brodhub.eu/en/news/rig-...

Rig It! Win elections through manipulation in a new game from the creators of Bad News, Harmony Square, and Cat Park

Published Monday 2 February 2026 at 18:24

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