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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.
Check out all our investigations below
ALL Publications
- Editorials
A few words on the need to be cautious with attribution in the context of foreign interference and coronavirus disinformation.
- Blog Posts
As the virus swept across the world, we decided to zoom into the narratives defining what the WHO term as “the infodemic”. Based on our monitoring of independently fact-checked disinformation from France, Italy, and Spain, we have been able to draw trends from the content, such as the strategies and platforms used to disinform.
- Blog Posts
In autumn 2019, we began to look into two disinformation websites, Africa24.info and 24jours.com, which were regularly flagged by some fact-checkers as outlets that spread disinformation.
- Blog Posts
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.
- Studies
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
by Alexandre Alaphilippe, Gary Machado, Roman Adamczyk and Antoine Grégoire
Over 265 fake local news sites in more than 65 countries are managed by an Indian influence network.
- Blog Posts
by Raquel Miguel
Voter suppression in the November 2019 Spanish general election
Recent investigations conducted by El País and eldiario.es (articles in Spanish) revealed voter suppression campaigns that had been active before the official start of the campaign on 1st November.
- Studies
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
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
Study for the Members and staff of the European Parliament co-written by EU DisinfoLab.
- Studies
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
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.