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Doppelganger – Media clones serving Russian propaganda
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.
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- Studies
- September 27, 2022
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.
- Blog Posts
- September 22, 2022
This blogpost provides an analysis of ‘disinformation entrepreneurs’, i.e., YouTube users that have found the fastest way to grow their accounts by spreading pro-Russian disinformation on the war in Ukraine.
- Blog Posts
- September 19, 2022
Amidst the rush to organise the snap Italian elections on September 25, here’s the review of the handful of initiatives that have been put forward by stakeholders to protect the vote from disinformation and foreign interference.
- Technical Documents
- September 2, 2022
This Technical Document by CORRECTIV.Faktencheck digs on the learnings from 5 years of monitoring of disinformation during the German elections, and provides the key takeaways from the 2021 German Federal Elections.
- Blog Posts
- August 31, 2022
This piece draws on a 2022 RightsCon session co-organised by EU DisinfoLab and the Dangerous Speech Project. It brought together disinformation experts from Greece, Poland, and Sri Lanka to share their own experiences debunking mis/disinformation, focusing on how such content can contribute to intergroup violence.
- Blog Posts
- July 22, 2022
This blogpost investigates the main disinformative trends circulating between January and June 2022 in France, Germany, and Spain.
- Technical Documents
- July 22, 2022
Thanks to this technical document, you will get access to the codebook guiding the work of the EU DisinfoLab Research Team.
- Blog Posts
- June 28, 2022
This blogpost looks into 169 disinformation items linked to the 2022 French presidential elections to better understand the main actors and narratives of these electoral hoaxes, together with their formats and characteristics.
- Blog Posts
- June 23, 2022
A growing anti-Russian sentiment has been reported in several European countries since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The scenario is complex and diverse across Europe.
- Technical Documents
- June 10, 2022
The EU DisinfoLab impact-risk index offers an approach to assess the potential impact of single hoaxes. The method goes through a list of eight indicators related to the virality and engagement of a single disinformative content.
- Technical Documents
- June 7, 2022
This Digital Services Act User-Guide will answer all the questions you might have about the upcoming DSA, a groundbreaking law on internet safety and platform accountability.
- Blog Posts
- June 7, 2022
This article reviews how users can appeal (in)action taken against content and/or accounts on four major social media platforms. It provides policy advice in the context of the next steps of the EU Digital Services Act (DSA), in particular Article 17 concerning internal complaint handling and redress mechanisms.