Publications

This blogpost looks into the disinformation about a potential blackout that has recently flourished amid the energy crisis in Europe, specifically in Germany.

This disinformation glossary compiles 150+ terms to better understand the information disorder. For each entry, you can find a snap definition and a concrete example.

This blogpost maps the growing disinformation threat against climate change and unpacks denialist discourses and nuances from recent years.

This investigation analyses Robert Kennedy Jr’s anti-vax movement Children’s Health Defense efforts to expand its activities in Europe.

This blogpost investigates the main disinformative trends circulating between July and December 2022 in France, Germany, and Spain.

By Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield The COVID-19 pandemic and related infodemic uncovered a wide range of weaknesses in their policies and actions towards tackling viral and harmful misinformation on COVID-19, which ranged widely from false cures to anti-vax narratives.  Specifically, our research (available from our COVID-19 Resource Hub) in the past two years uncovered a number of issues: Failure of platforms’ content moderation actions, in breach of their own policies, where we reviewed Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp.  Inadequate enforcement of platform policies in smaller countries and non-English languages, where we studied France, Bulgaria, and the Philippines, as well as making cross-country/language comparisons.

This blogpost looks at how recurrent hoaxes can help the counter-disinformation community predict and tackle the next infodemic through the lens of the monkeypox hoaxes – which are mostly a repackaged version of the COVID-19 infodemic.