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European Digital Media Observatory
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We bring together fact-checkers, media literacy practitioners, scholars, journalists, and online platforms to tackle disinformation. Based at @eui-eu.bsky.social. Visit us at www.edmo.eu.
The #DSA was expected to get #socialmedia giants like #Facebook, #TikTok to make the online space safer. Yet an experiment reveals that #platforms often treat user complaints about illegal content as a formality. In the #Baltics, they respond almost exclusively to #regulators’ requests, if at all. 👇
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🚨🇭🇺 "False or misleading statements targeting the #LGBTQ community 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 in mainstream pro-government #media in #Hungary."

🔍 Read the new investigation by lakmusz.hu, Hdmo.eu on prevalent topics, actors & methods – illustrated w/ examples from recent #Lakmusz #factchecks 👇
October 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"Europe’s democratic resilience depends on sustained and strategic support for the public interest information ecosystem"

✍️ EDMO joins 100+ orgs in calling for robust, strategic #EU #investment in free + independent #media in response to the proposal for the next #MFF. Full letter: loom.ly/cPAwZUM
October 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🚨 #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 incl. #TikTok, #Telegram, and #X, targeting young audiences.

👉 Read the new investigation by @maldita.es & @facta.news: loom.ly/dHT1boI
October 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
📱 Did any of the 5 most widely circulated fake stories of September pop up on your own screen?

🚫 #paracetamol 💊 → #autism
🚫 pro #EU🇪🇺 forces rigged #Moldova #election 🇲🇩
🚫 Orwellian UK police harass girl bc of Facebook activity 🚔

👉 Check them all & find all insights from our network: loom.ly/wdaEq8Q
October 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
🇪🇺🗳️ 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱: our new cross-country analysis of #politicaladvertising during the 2024 #EUelections examines:

– 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 & 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗼𝗳 #Meta & #Google on #CoP / #CoC commitments
– 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 & 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝘆 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 during the run up to the #elections

👉 loom.ly/i7JDYiY
September 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🚨 Last Saturday, a Russian #drone violated Romanian airspace, prompting Romanian authorities to issue #ROAlert warnings and urging the local population to seek shelter.

👉 Funky.ong @brodhub.bsky.social examined four primary false #narratives that emerged following the incident: loom.ly/UU7700k
September 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
🗳️🇲🇩 Catch up on the latest developments in #Moldova ahead of next week's parliamentary #election with expert analyses from our new Hub fact-hub.eu as well as @brodhub.bsky.social!

👉 Find all insights: loom.ly/C9s0Fn4
👉 Subscribe to the FACT Newsletter: fact-hub.eu
September 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
⏳🪑🪑🪑 Have you seen the image of European leaders submissively waiting in a #WhiteHouse corridor for a meeting w/ #Trump? Chances are you have: according to data gathered by EDMO, the #AI generated #fake was the most viral piece of #disinformation detected in August.

👉 All insights: loom.ly/vg2qxfY
September 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
⛰️ Guten Abend from the beautiful village of #Alpbach, Austria! 🇦🇹

Together w/ colleagues from HDMO.eu, @goripaula.bsky.social & @eldaelda.bsky.social are attending this year's #EuropeanForumAlpbach as session hosts. Take a look at the programme & if you're around, join us tomorrow! loom.ly/goc6tj8
August 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
❓What #data do #VLOPSEs collect? How are they structured + used? How can #researchers best utilize #dataaccess under Art. 40 of the #DSA?

👉 Our new report by @jeffallen.bsky.social @mattmotyl.bsky.social + S. Gurley provides valuable answers for academic + civil society researchers: loom.ly/gQa-FjQ
August 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Our Monthly #FactChecking Brief Nr. 5️⃣0️⃣ is out! A sincere thank you to all members of the EDMO FC Network across #Europe: it is their commitment + crucial work that enables our team to monitor and analyse latest #disinformation dynamics in a cross-border, long-term perspective.

👉 loom.ly/Q97Xt9o
August 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
💡 Read the main insights from the May 2025 #Science for #Policy workshop by the Joint Research Centre & @eui-eu.bsky.social: hdl.handle.net/1814/93071

🪢 This brief synthesizes 3 interconnected themes discussed during the panel “Narratives and Conflict in the #PostTruth #Information Environment”.
July 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🎥 Throwback to our extremely interesting recent training series on #climate #disinformation! If you missed either of the two modules, you can re-watch them anytime on our website: loom.ly/tCHLkaU

👉 Learn more about EDMO network initiatives on climate disinfo: loom.ly/lNarcf0
July 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🏚️ Hopeless citizens living in chaos, betrayed by their immoral governments: Belarusian #propaganda has intensified its #disinformation attacks on #EU countries, with narratives shifting towards social & economic policies.

👉 Read the new investigation by @belarusfiles.bsky.social: loom.ly/JWSsF58
July 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🚨 "This was the first major military #conflict where #generativeAI played a central role in shaping #public #perception, and it might just be a preview of what’s to come."

👉 Read the new investigation on #AI and #misinformation in the #Isreal #Iran war by @factnameh.bsky.social: loom.ly/UeidfP4
July 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
🚨 Published today, our 49th monthly brief shows an unprecedented use of #ArtificialIntelligence in the context of the 12-day #Israel-#Iran war, contributing to a record of #AI content registered by EDMO.

👉 All insights, based on 1.502 #factchecking articles produced in June: loom.ly/VjObSRg
July 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
🇵🇹 At today's #EMIF Summer Event, EDMO Board members Sally Reynolds and Paolo Cesarini are joined by Katarína Klingová, Lisa Ginsborg and Emmanuel Vincent to discuss the role of #dataaccess in light of the new #CodeofConduct.

➡️ More on data access: loom.ly/U3dHims
➡️ About the event: loom.ly/JRh5Y8s
July 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🌡️ While Europe's #heatwave pushes temperatures above 40°C, today's first session of our training series underlined: #climate #disinformation doesn't just happen, it's a tool used by powerful actors to sabotage #climateaction – and it must be better understood + countered. 1/2
July 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🇺🇳 Missed us at this year's #UN @intgovforum.bsky.social in Lillestrøm? Re-watch our session: loom.ly/kuB8TyY

#EU Rules on #Disinformation: Who Are Friends or Foes?
🎙️ @goripaula.bsky.social @mikkovsalo.bsky.social @nordishub.bsky.social @benmshultz.com + more. Thanks to everyone who joined us!
July 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Reminder: register by 3 July, 17:00 CEST, and join us as we zoom in on effective responses to #climate #disinformation with:

🔸 @lewan.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social
🔸 @johnfocook.bsky.social @mcbc-unimelb.bsky.social
🔸 @simofons.bsky.social @facta.news

🗓️ 10 July, 10:00-11:30
🔗 loom.ly/G3FV_VQ
July 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🌴 𝗘𝗗𝗠𝗢 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀: catch up on some of the latest press articles on this week's EDMO report "Implementing the EU Code of Practice on #Disinformation: An Evaluation of VLOPSE Compliance and Effectiveness (Jan–Jun 2024)"

🗞️ Articles on Linkedin: loom.ly/z-ZoBys
🔍 EDMO report: loom.ly/-115cZ8
June 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🔍 To what extent are #Meta, #Google, #Microsoft and #TikTok fulfilling their commitments to 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 as foreseen by the Code of Practice on #Disinformation?

👉 Take a look at our complete new report, the executive summary, and 15 recommendations: loom.ly/-115cZ8
June 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Just a few days left to register: join module 1 of the EDMO Training Series on #Climate #Disinformation!

🗓️ 2 July, 15:30-17:00 CEST
🗣️ Philip Newell @caadcoalition.bsky.social
🗣️ @epurina.bsky.social
🗣️ @icuker.bsky.social
🗣️ Jos Delbeke @eui-stg.bsky.social

👉 More info & registration: loom.ly/YH0RxaY
June 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
💵 Despite #Facebook's policies against #hatespeech and #Holocaust denial, the platfoms’ #monetization #algorithms promote deceptive #AI #Holocaust content by recommending it to users interested in historical topics: read the new investigation by @provereno.bsky.social at loom.ly/uJXLvN4.
June 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM