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YouTube’s uneven policy enforcement allows lies to thrive in the Philippines
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.
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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ALL Publications
- 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.
- April 8, 2021
As a follow-up from our earlier investigation, here we examine the subsequent question of how anti-vaccine disinformation spreads in countries where Facebook does not have independent third-party fact-checkers.
- April 7, 2021
Major platforms have found themselves in the role of first responders, responsible for removing what is in some cases life-threatening health misinformation, as well as for disseminating essential updates about the sanitary situation, government measures and advice from health professionals.
- Blog Posts
- April 1, 2021
This is the first of a two part look at COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and Facebook and the platform’s failings when moderating anti-vaxx and vaccine hesitant stances.
- February 24, 2021
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.
- Blog Posts
- February 12, 2021
Even with their 3rd party fact checking program, misinformation continues to spread on Facebook – through its chat app, Facebook Messenger.
- Studies
- February 10, 2021
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.
- Blog Posts
- January 18, 2021
Following our earlier research on the loopholes in the enforcement of Facebook policies, this blogpost focuses on content moderation shortcomings on Twitter and YouTube. In particular, we show that disinformative claims that wrongly link COVID-19 and 5G technology often remain undetected.
- Studies
- December 18, 2020
By Raquel Miguel, External Researcher at EU DisinfoLab
Despite the recent measures taken by Patreon to combat QAnon-related disinformation, EU DisinfoLab has found that content linked to these theories continues to circulate and be monetised on the crowdfunding platform in Spain.