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Linfonational: Impersonating politicians on Facebook to amplify disinformation
We uncovered a network around linfonational.net, which impersonated politicians on Facebook to amplify disinformation in France. Our investigation shows just how easy it is to use Facebook’s features to manage a disinformation network using political content.
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
- Studies
- January 15, 2020
How the so-called French media outlet France Libre 24 – which uses disinformation to sow polarisation in society – hides the fact that it’s managed by a Polish far-right network.
- Studies
- November 26, 2019
Over 265 fake local news sites in more than 65 countries are managed by an Indian influence network. How could you know that your local news website, such as newyorkmorningtelegraph.com, thedublingazette.com, or timesofportugal.com serves Indian governmental interests?
- Studies
- October 22, 2019
EUvsDisinfo uncovered that EP Today – the self-proclaimed “monthly news magazine for the European Parliament” – had misled readers into thinking that the website is affiliated with the European Parliament.
- Studies
- September 11, 2019
In cooperation with French media Le Monde, the EU DisinfoLab helped expose a French white supremacist network that uses deceptive Facebook pages to attract visitors on their website to generate revenue from online advertisements, and sell racist products as a means to support their activities.
- Studies
- May 3, 2019
Study for the Members and staff of the European Parliament co-written by EU DisinfoLab.
- Studies
- August 8, 2018
L’Affaire Benalla, révélée par le Monde, suivie de plusieurs rebondissements de la part de l’exécutif français, existe sans les réseaux sociaux. Dans le même temps, l’affaire Benalla a occupé Twitter en ce mois de juillet dans des volumes que nous n’avions presque jamais croisés auparavant.
- Studies
- June 1, 2018
CASE REPORT Disinformation detection system: 2018 Italian elections From December 2017 to March 2018 the EU DisinfoLab had conducted a project aimed at developing our “Disinformation Detection System” – first in use during the 2016 French elections – and implementing it in Italy, which held its General Election on March 4th.
- Editorials
- May 29, 2018
Read this article in The Next Web. It’s barely been a week since Brussels was hyped about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg being (supposedly) grilled by the European Parliament.
- Editorials
- May 17, 2018
This article was published in Euractiv blog. Mark Zuckerberg is finally coming to Brussels. We, Europeans, were granted a visit and it feels we had to beg for it.
- Studies
- May 17, 2018
We’re proud to share with you today EU DisinfoLab’s scientific paper on “Developing a disinformation detection system and sourcing it live – The case study of the 2018 Italian elections”.