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The disinformation landscape in Spain
Find out more about the disinformation landscape in Spain.
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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- Studies
Quality journalism and honest reporting bring crucial facts to the public. But, in numerous cases, “media” (whether self-depicted or registered) have played a role in producing and distributing disinformation campaigns.
- Editorials
by Nicolas Tenzer.
This op-ed from Nicolas Tenzer is a translation, slightly adapted and referenced, of an op-ed published on 17 September 2021 in French by the newspaper Le Monde and on Mr Tenzer’s website.
- Editorials
We are delighted to announce that Camille François, global expert on disinformation, has been appointed Member of the EU DisinfoLab Board of Directors on 30th June 2021.
- Blog Posts
In the lead up to the German federal election, we compiled a list of the initiatives that were set up to counter disinformation as well as cyberthreats and foreign interference attempts.
- Blog Posts
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
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
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.
- Blog Posts
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
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
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
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
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.