A vibrant home for disinformation activists and experts
EU DisinfoLab is an independent non-profit organisation focused on tackling sophisticated disinformation campaigns targeting the EU, its member states, core institutions, and core values.
What we do
Research
We continuously monitor disinformation activities across the major platforms (digital and traditional), identify trends and threats, alert activists and researchers to these, and make our resource pool widely available to collaborators.
Knowledge sharing
We develop and maintain an independent European platform on disinformation, providing experts with tools and resources to encourage collaboration. We collect and organise critical information, findings, tools and other resources useful for activists and experts.
Advocacy
We regularly make policy recommendations at the EU level and to Member States based on our own analyses, and help other activists ensure that their advocacy efforts are grounded in sound analyses.
Outreach
We organise regular events, including an annual conference, webinars, and workshops, which collectively assemble researchers and experts to share experiences and tools, plan collaborations, and keep abreast of critical developments in the field.
#DISINFO2022: THANK YOU!
EU DisinfoLab 2022 Annual Conference
Thank you for joining the EU DisinfoLab 2022 Conference on 25-26 October in Brussels! Conference materials are available from the Conference page and you can watch the replays from our YouTube channel. Mark your calendars: #Disinfo2023 will take place on 11 & 12 October, 2023 in Krakow, Poland!
OUR LATEST RESEARCH
From COVID-19 to Ukraine-related misinformation: Are Platforms Doing Any Better?
By Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield The COVID-19 pandemic and related infodemic uncovered a wide range of weaknesses in their policies and actions towards tackling viral and harmful misinformation on COVID-19, which ranged widely from false cures to anti-vax narratives.
HIghlights
This Disinfo Update will provide you with insights on the latest disinformation news including how Google’s Ad unit makes disinfo profitable, the disinformation law in Turkey and the September disinfo trends from our researchers.
Brussels needs to move beyond ready-made slogans in the fight against disinformation The recent Doppelganger operation we exposed mainly consisted of Russian actors cloning media websites and buying many domain names echoing real ones to spread anti-Ukraine narratives.
How Doppelganger, an operation linked to Russian-based actors, cloned legitimate media outlets from multiple European countries to spread disinformation designed to undermine the support to Ukraine.