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Overcoming Obstacles to Exposing Disinformation Actors
Over the past two years, the EU DisinfoLab has worked on nine OSINT investigations to expose tactics and strategies used by a wide range of actors to disseminate disinformation online. Our findings were published openly on our website, covered by major media outlets, and almost always shared directly with contacts within the social media platforms concerned.
Research is a core part of what we do. It involves identifying, uncovering, and explaining disinformation campaigns and networks, using open source investigation techniques (OSINT) and social media network analysis methodologies. We disseminate our findings via our partnerships with the media and leading experts in the field.
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- Blog Posts
- September 10, 2021
Over the past two years, the EU DisinfoLab has worked on nine OSINT investigations to expose tactics and strategies used by a wide range of actors to disseminate disinformation online.
- Blog Posts
- September 7, 2021
The Authenticity Assessment
by EU DisinfoLab Researcher Antoine Grégoire
See the First Branch , Second Branch, and Third Branch of the CIB Detection Tree.
Disclaimer
This publication has been made in the framework of the WeVerify project.
- Blog Posts
- July 15, 2021
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.
- June 13, 2021
Most of the time, one of the first purposes, if not the only purpose, of a CIB network is to increase amplification of content: looking at content distribution metrics will help to detect or to uncover a possible CIB network.
- Blog Posts
- May 12, 2021
On 11 November 2020, the French company Tprod released a COVID-19 conspiracy documentary called “Hold-up”. The documentary is based on interviews of several French-speaking controversial figures and conspiracy theorists, which have been part of the main sources of COVID-19 disinformation in the French language.
- Blog Posts
- April 28, 2021
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.
- Blog Posts
- April 28, 2021
Although a clear and widely accepted definition of CIB is currently missing, the concept of malicious account networks, using varying ways of interacting with each other, is observed as central to any attempt to identify CIB
- Blog Posts
- April 23, 2021
Vaccines did not receive very significant media coverage in the Russian state-controlled media in French (namely Sputnik France and Russia Today En Français) until Russia had a candidate vaccine.
- April 14, 2021
As Rappler journalists report from Manila, the absurd claim that the family of the late dictator and president Ferdinand Marcos owns a million tons of gold is still proliferating on YouTube, despite debunks by historians and independent fact checkers in the Philippines.
- Blog Posts
- April 8, 2021
We hope this methodology will help researchers and NGOs to populate their investigations and reports with evidence of CIB. This could improve the communication channels between independent researchers and online platforms to provide a wider and more public knowledge of platforms policies and takedowns around CIB and Information Operations.