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.
Pre-Register for #Disinfo2021
EU DisinfoLab’s Annual Conference will take place this year on October 26 & 27th.
Pre-registration is now OPEN for our annual conference on disinformation, to take place physically here in Brussels.
Latest Publication
Antagonising fact-checkers: the misappropriation of fact-checking to polarise the Spanish informational landscape
For several months, the EU DisinfoLab has detected the apparition of several new actors in the Spanish informational landscape that position themselves as antagonistic alternatives to well-established Spanish fact-checkers.
HIghlights
ICYMI. On July 18, Forbidden Stories and a consortium of 16 news outlets published the findings of an investigation into the use of the cyber-surveillance tool Pegasus, purchased from the Israeli security company NSO Group by governments to monitor persons of interest.
491 pages of monthly COVID-19 disinformation monitoring reports from Facebook, Google, TikTok and Twitter, dated from August 2020 to March 2021, squeezed into 2 colourful timelines and 1 article.
We hope this methodology will help researchers and NGOs to populate their investigations and reports with evidence of CIB.