🚨 "This was the first major military #conflict where generative #AI played a central role in shaping #public #perception, and it might just be a preview of what’s to come." 🔍 In our new investigation, FactNameh | فکت‌نامه, signatory of International Fact-Checking Network, zooms in on the #Iran-#Israel #War

🇷🇴🇮🇹 A new report by IDMO, BROD , and European Digital Media Observatory maps the #disinformation landscape across X, TikTok, and Facebook during Romania’s 2024–2025 electoral cycle, with a focus on the diaspora in Italy. Narratives around sovereignty, fraud, and anti-institutionalism go viral and

💡 Read the main insights from the May 2025 “#Science for #Policy” workshop organised by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and European University Institute: hdl.handle.net/1814/93071 🪢 This policy brief synthesizes three interconnected themes discussed during the panel “#Narratives and

⚠️ The most credible hoax we have recorded in Czechia in recent months targeted the LGBT community 🏳️‍🌈 The CEDMO Fact-checking Brief reveals that a large proportion of Czechs believe disinformation targeting the LGBT community 🧵

🔎 #FactcheckFreitag 🔎 #EDMO #EDMOBelux #Faktencheck #Fehlinformation #Desinformation ✍️ belux.edmo.eu/de/falsche-beh…

📣 Today, NORDIS is sending out our newsletter, where we share how the Nordic fact-checkers are preparing for the two upcoming elections in Norway and Denmark. Haven’t signed up yet? Do it here: nordishub.eu/newsletter/

🚨 Last Saturday, a Russian #drone violated Romanian airspace during a Russian attack on Ukrainian #Danube infrastructure. The incident prompted Romanian authorities to issue #ROAlert warnings for the northern part of #Tulcea County, urging the local population to seek shelter.

👏European Digital Media Observatory has published its latest monthly fact-checking brief The four false stories with the widest circulation in the EU in August, based on the fact-checkers' reports, were: AI-generated image of European leaders waiting in a corridor of the White House for a meeting with

🇪🇺🗳️ 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱: our new comparative analysis of #politicaladvertising during the 2024 #EUelections examines: 🔍 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵

🛡️How can we defend democracy and strengthen its resilience in the face of disinformation? Thrilled to see Ágnes Urbán (Mérték Média Monitor) and Péter Krekó (Political Capital) bring their insights to a panel on disinformation at Budapest Forum 2025 last week. Full recording of the

👏 Thrilled that HDMO could help shine a light on how political advertising played out across the EU in 2024. Collaboration like this shows what the #EDMO network can achieve.

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🚨 𝗙𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱 – 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗹. From #Franco fan edits to #Hitler #memes, a new wave of "#popfascism" is spreading fast across platforms including #TikTok, #Telegram, and #X. Rebranding #dictators as edgy icons

🚨 The new European Digital Media Observatory Monthly Fact-Checking Brief is out! Across 31 organizations in the EDMO fact-checking network, a total of 1,517 fact-checking articles were published in September 2025. Out of these articles there were: 🔹 134 (9%) – Ukraine-related disinformation 🔹

🚨🇭🇺 "False or misleading statements targeting the #LGBTQ community 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 in mainstream pro-government media in #Hungary." 🔍 Read the new investigation by lakmusz HDMO - Hungarian hub against disinformation that presents the most prevalent topics of #disinformation attacking

🔍 Discover how Central Europeans really use social media ⬇️ Around one-third of people in Czechia, Slovakia, and Poland say that they engage with social media multiple times a day. However, many Central Europeans expressed fatigue from information overload. Learn more below 👇

Peter Krekó from Political Capital represented the HDMO Hub at the Eastern Partnership Fact-Checkers Annual Conference “Unveil the Truth”, speaking on informational autocracy and sharing HDMO research on resource asymmetry in Hungarian elections and the “post-advertisement” era of

Proud to share that from lakmusz , Zsófia Fülöp took part in the “When reporting the truth is risky – journalists, fact-checkers and researchers under attack” panel at the Unveil the Truth conference. Grateful to Myth Detector and DW Akademie for bringing together such an