NEST Institute has just released an analytical framework for assessing strategic corruption, a key part of resilience against hybrid threats. It helps spot risky schemes early: overpriced procurement, indirect funding of political parties and media, and investments in sensitive sectors like energy.

Completion of project on tackling strategic corruption - NEST Institute

With support from the German Marshall Fund and co-funded by the European Union, we spent the past period focused on a topic that is quiet, yet all the more dangerous – strategic corruption as a tool…

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🇸🇪 Two weeks after the election, "Sweden has fallen" has become international shorthand for the result. The Swedish Defence Research Agency warns that the current narratives on election fraud and misconduct can be used by foreign actors. By Revontulet and the Fojo Media Institute ⬇️

Valkollen: From Borlänge to Järva: How a Single Fraud Investigation Became a Claim About Sweden's Whole Election — Revontulet

Two weeks after Sweden's general election on 13 September, "Sweden has fallen" has become international shorthand for the result. At Revontulet, we have been monitoring the Swedish election…

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Les élections présidentielles en France 🇫🇷 approchent à grands pas. Pour en apprendre plus sur l’environnement de l’information qui les entourent, et de la façon dont les chaînes Telegram russes s’y investissent, suivez le bulletin de Denys Kolesnyk pour Info Ops France.

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Bulletin bimensuel d'Info Ops France : comment les chaînes Telegram russes traitent les acteurs politiques français avant la présidentielle d'avril 2027.

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Russian narratives targeting Zelensky’s visit to Canada. A network of fake Alberta websites created to shape the Alberta separatism debate with new analysis from VIGIL Strategic Intelligence on the network behind them. All in our latest DisinfoDigest: disinfowatch.org/disinfodiges...

DisinfoDigest: Foreign Narratives Targeting Canada & Ukraine - DisinfoWatch

This edition of DisinfoDigest highlights how foreign and foreign-linked actors continue to exploit political divisions, democratic debates and international crises using a mix of state media, influenc...

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🇦🇲 Armenia’s June 2026 parliamentary election was the target of a sustained Russian campaign combining economic and diplomatic pressure, info manipulation and reported attempts to influence voters - found a new report by the International Partnership for Human Rights (@iphr.bsky.social)

New Report — RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN ARMENIA’S 2026 ELECTIONS: A Post-election Examination - IPHR

IPHR and The Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor Office are publishing their new report, RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN ARMENIA’S 2026 ELECTIONS: A Post-election Examination, examining the methods, actors, ...

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We are taking Meta to court. A certified body ruled Facebook is hosting banned content. Under the DSA, Meta should pay our legal costs. It refused. If platforms can leave civil society with the bill, dispute settlement fails before it starts. alliance4europe.eu/report-a-case

Tomorrow in Vienna, Omri Preiss joins Tomáš Halász (TrollWall AI) and Kasia Mielec (@eurcorrespond.bsky.social) at the Political Communication Summit to discuss how Europe can defend its communication space without closing it off. 🛡 Of Shields and Walls 🗓 7 Oct, 12:30, Vienna City Hall

Content removal alone is failing. The "Behind the Investigations" panel at #BehindTheInfluence exposed how threat actors use commercialized AI, ad loopholes, and proxy networks to target elections—and why moderation must evolve. 🧵👇

Gender Under Influence at #BehindTheInfluence. Lucina Di Meco (#ShePersisted), Catherine Van de Heyning (UN), Dr. Joana de Deus Pereira (RUSI Europe) and Galen Lamphere-Englund (Extremism & Gaming Research Network) opened a closed-door roundtable on a gap the field doesn't talk about enough. 🧵👇

🚨 Detection is necessary, but disruption is essential. Panel 3 at #BehindTheInfluence officially launched the European rollout of the DISRUPT Toolkit, a standardized playbook to move from monitoring foreign interference to actively countering it. 🧵👇

"The Amplification Dilemma" at #BehindTheInfluence: what can FIMI reporting learn from terrorism coverage? Our second roundtable of the day explores an uncomfortable question, are we exposing manipulation, or becoming part of its distribution chain? 🧵👇

Our second Panel 'Business Under Influence' at the CDN Conference explores when influence operations enter debates on energy and the green transition. What responsibility and capacity do businesses and companies have to respond? 🧵👇

Tools in Action at #BehindTheInfluence. Gerulata's Tomáš Kriššák showed how software can support the response to influence operations, from monitoring and detection to investigation. Gerulata is a Bratislava-based defence-tech AI company building 100% EU sovereign tech. 🧵👇

Kicking off Panel 1 at #CDN2026: Where FIMI Meets Radicalisation - Understanding the Intersection. Foreign influence operations don't operate in isolation: they can exploit existing grievances, extremist narratives, and polarised information environments. 🧵👇

Opening #BehindTheInfluence at the #CDN2026 Conference in Brussels: Alliance4Europe's Omri Preiss (Managing Director) and Saman Nazari (Lead, Red Team & Coordinator, Counter Disinformation Network) kick off the day🧵👇

🔴 We are live! Counter-Disinformation Network’s Conference ‘Behind the Influence’ is starting in Brussels.  👀 Follow our live coverage of the conference on this channel throughout the day.

Our latest investigation into suspicious accounts interfering in Sweden's election discourse made headlines with @euronews.com this week. More than 8,500 suspicious accounts identified ahead of last weekend's vote. Read the full coverage 👇

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More than 8,500 X accounts were identified as suspicious in the run-up to Sweden's general election, in which the centre-left opposition secured a narrow preliminary lead. #TheCube

Good news for democratic resilience in Europe! 🇪🇺 The EP yesterday adopted its position on the European Democracy Shield, calling for funding for democracy across the EU budget, more effective enforcement of EU laws towards Big Tech, and a Democratic Resilience Centre that can get real results.

The Democracy Shield is the EU's flagship strategy for defending our democracy, a free and prosperous Europe. The Commission published the plan in November 2025; the European Parliament has now had its say. It must be more than a catchy title, the commitments need real funding. 🧵

🎙️ Our Pravda dashboard and our @radar.checkfirst.network helping to build other toolkits (👋 @edmo-belux.bsky.social and @alliance4europe.bsky.social). Maltego also released a report expanding on our investigation into the GRU's Information Operations Troops!

How did political ads keep running during Hungary’s 2026 elections despite the EU ban? 🔍 Our new CDN investigation with Political Capital Institute & HDMO exposes how ads bypassed platform bans on social media. Read our investigation at alliance4europe.eu/report/the-e...

The Enforcement Gap: How Social Media Platforms Handled Political Advertising in Hungary's 2026 Election - Alliance4Europe

This report highlights systemic social media enforcement failures during the April 2026 Hungarian elections, focusing on political ads and coordinated inauthentic behavior.

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What if the “majority opinion” you see online isn’t actually a majority? Coordinated influence operations rarely only rely on fake news, but rather on repetition. Spotted something off? Flag it on our platform: alliance4europe.eu/report-a-case

🔴 Behind Matryoshka's Sweden campaign is a single circuit spanning multiple elections. In a new report with CeMAS and A4E's Counter Disinformation Network, we tracked the Russian influence operation Matryoshka as it targeted the Swedish elections. alliance4europe.eu/report/matry...

By rejecting a racist ‘remigration’ petition, the EU may have finally awakened its sleeping democracy experiment. My latest for @euobserver.com @democracyreporting.bsky.social @alliance4europe.bsky.social @eudemocracy.eu @marieccles.bsky.social euobserver.com/233358/by-re...

By rejecting a racist ‘remigration’ petition, the EU may have finally awakened its sleeping democracy experiment

A remigration campaign has become the first European Citizens' Initiative ever refused for breaching the Union's core values. Yet the fight it has triggered could force Brussels to take its neglected ...

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“The MFF is Europe’s democratic sovereignty test [...] strategic funding for democratic resilience will be the central factor.” Read Omri Preiss' Op-Ed in the Brussels Times on big tech’s grip on Europe and what the upcoming European long-term budget means. www.brusselstimes.com/opinion/2199...

Can Europe’s leaders deliver on tech sovereignty and democracy?

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You can’t stop foreign influence operations without disrupting them - that's why we launched the #DISRUPTToolkit. Built on existing tools, methods, experience and input from 170+ practitioners, it drives a whole-of-society collaboration to counter & mitigate influence operations 👉 bit.ly/4sRcpHC

We were on @tvpworld.bsky.social to discuss what’s needed to protect children - and us all - from the negative impact of Big Tech, from #DSA implementation and investment in 🇪🇺 #DigitalSovereignty. Watch the full interview here 👉 bit.ly/4av1nzW

Online abuse of kids: Sánchez's digital coalition against Big Tech | Wider View

Europe is moving toward tougher rules on social media for children, with leaders like Emmanuel Macron and Pedro Sánchez warning about addiction, abuse, and harmful content online. But the push for stricter regulation has sparked fierce reactions from Big Tech figures, including Elon Musk, raising questions about a growing transatlantic clash over digital power, free speech, and child safety. In this episode of Wider View, we look at whether Europe is ready to confront tech giants, what real protections for children might look like, and whether bans alone can solve the problem. Join Grzegorz Nawrocki and his guests: Isaline Wittorski, Project Lead at ECPAT International and Omri Preiss, Managing Director at Alliance4Europe, for Wider View. 00:00 Kids’ Brains “Not for Sale”: Europe Declares War on Big Tech 02:29 “Digital Wild West”: Sánchez Pushes a Youth Social Media Ban 03:03 Child Safety = Democracy Security (info-warfare & manipulation) 05:47 What Changed: AI, X, and the Trust & Safety Rollback 07:38 The Real Damage: Victims, long-term harm, and why self-regulation failed 09:30 DSA: Enforcement, red lines, and fines that could actually bite 12:38 Australia Test Case + What Europe Should Do Next (design, age-appropriate, sovereignty) #europe #regulation #socialmedia #children 🔴 Watch our 24/7 livestream - https://youtube.com/live/m4mVcUReR6Y Bringing you all the latest daily news and updates, TVP World is Poland's first English-language channel where you can find world news as seen from the Polish perspective and the latest news from the CEE region. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. https://tvpworld.com/ https://www.facebook.com/tvpworldcom https://twitter.com/TVPWorld_com https://www.instagram.com/tvp_world/ https://www.threads.net/@tvp_world https://bsky.app/profile/tvpworld.bsky.social https://www.tiktok.com/@tvpworld.com https://t.me/tvp_world

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How to make democracy more resilient? How can the 🇪🇺 budget strengthen democracy and remain trusted? Join the discussion on 4 February organised by @democracyintl.bsky.social and the Future of Democracy Parliamentary Group to find out 👉 bit.ly/3O4djB6

❄️ Before heading for the winter break, check out our December newsletter, where we take a look back at what we've accomplished in 2025 and exciting events, trainings and initiatives coming up in 2026. Sign up here 👉 bit.ly/47pCIg1

🚨 Online platforms aren’t playing by the rules? Make them! You can now report harmful/illegal content through our page - we review it, file a complaint and escalate it if needed. Let’s put #DigitalServicesAct to work! Enforce your digital rights. Report a case now 👉 bit.ly/48f7LKz bit.ly/4rl6eva

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