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Cloudflare v. Arcom: DNS blocking, EU sanctions, and the limits of the Digital Services Act
This blogpost, although very long, is a very simplified summary of the legal wranglings about an order placed on Cloudflare to block access to sanctioned Russian outlets for users of its DNS service in France.
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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.
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Hungry for learning from the best disinformation tactics? Today, on the menu, we propose Indian Chronicles’ recipe for setting up fake local media, complete with fake journalists.
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We could tell you about how several Members of the European Parliament’s genuine positions on human rights were abused by Indian Chronicles – the name we gave to the 15-year operation we exposed yesterday.
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by Gary Machado Alexandre Alaphilippe, Roman Adamczyk and Antoine Grégoire
Following a preliminary investigation published in 2019, the EU DisinfoLab uncovered a massive operation targeting international institutions and serving Indian interests. “Indian Chronicles” – the name we gave to this operation – resurrected dead media, dead think-tanks and NGOs.
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We have been tracking how misogynistic narratives have been retrieved and adapted to fit within the mis- and disinformation landscape around COVID-19 – an event which has had a disproportionately negative impact on women’s rights.
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Facebook’s labeling of fact-checked disinformation on the risks of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) can easily be overturned, allowing similar stories to circulate without labels or context.
According to the European Commission “Crowdfunding is an emerging alternative form of financing that connects those who can give, lend or invest money directly with those who need financing for a specific project.
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Building on recent studies on the use of state-controlled media in several countries as both producers and amplifiers of online disinformation, this report focuses on the activities of Chinese state-controlled media in France.
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Internet communication companies are simultaneously under pressure to tackle disinformation on their networks, as questions are raised regarding the shift to private regulatory action, in which public scrutiny is almost entirely absent.
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A follow up on our investigation La Verdadera Izquierda and how the sale of social media accounts is flourishing on the black market in Spain.
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In March 2020, we stumbled across articles from a French website called “ObservateurContinental.fr” which had spread disinformation related to COVID-19, including an article repropagating an interview with the US professor of international law Francis Boyle, who had falsely asserted without evidence that the “COVID-19 is a perfect biological weapon”.
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How an anonymous Spanish alternative blog, which spreads disinformation and polarizing content, has been using the Amazon Associates program to fund its activities.