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.
The Many faces fighting disinformation
A panorama of innovative, multidisciplinary actors tackling dis and misinformation
Civil society is rising to disinformation challenges with new types of expertise, but they are also exposed to novel risks. We conducted 14 qualitative, semi-structured interviews with civil society actors to understand how these initiatives were created and have evolved, and to examine their difficulties in terms of sustainability, security, and impact.
Latest Publication
One Year Onward: Platform Responses to COVID-19 and US Elections Disinformation in Review
As we approach the one-year mark on the COVID-19 pandemic, we take a close look at how online platforms have responded to health and political disinformation on their services.
HIghlights
Yesterday Australia’s Digital Industry Group (DIGI), a body representing several large technology companies, released a voluntary Code of Practice on Misinformation and Disinformation.
An investigation by Raquel Miguel. Tierrapura.org appeared in Argentina at the end of March 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming to gather a “group of concerned citizens” that provides “really important information” that was “being hidden (…) due to the manipulation of the communist regime in China”, as stated in its website.
by Gary Machado Alexandre Alaphilippe, and Roman Adamczyk Following a preliminary investigation published in 2019, the EU DisinfoLab uncovered a massive operation targeting international institutions and serving Indian interests.