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Ethical dilemmas in detecting and responding to disinformation

This self-paced training course, Ethics in the Fight Against Disinformation: Practical Dilemmas for Media and Civic Actors, is designed for professionals working at the frontline of the information integrity ecosystem.

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This blogpost inputs into the debates on the Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence proposed by the European Commission in March. While putting forward interesting initiatives to protect victims, the Directive does not consider the impact of harmful content, notably gender-based disinformation.
How Doppelganger, an operation linked to Russian-based actors, cloned legitimate media outlets from multiple European countries to spread disinformation designed to undermine the support to Ukraine.
This blogpost provides an analysis of ‘disinformation entrepreneurs’, i.e., YouTube users that have found the fastest way to grow their accounts by spreading pro-Russian disinformation on the war in Ukraine.
Amidst the rush to organise the snap Italian elections on September 25, here’s the review of the handful of initiatives that have been put forward by stakeholders to protect the vote from disinformation and foreign interference.
This Technical Document by CORRECTIV.Faktencheck digs on the learnings from 5 years of monitoring of disinformation during the German elections, and provides the key takeaways from the 2021 German Federal Elections.
This piece draws on a 2022 RightsCon session co-organised by EU DisinfoLab and the Dangerous Speech Project. It brought together disinformation experts from Greece, Poland, and Sri Lanka to share their own experiences debunking mis/disinformation, focusing on how such content can contribute to intergroup violence.
This blogpost investigates the main disinformative trends circulating between January and June 2022 in France, Germany, and Spain.
Thanks to this technical document, you will get access to the codebook guiding the work of the EU DisinfoLab Research Team.
This blogpost looks into 169 disinformation items linked to the 2022 French presidential elections to better understand the main actors and narratives of these electoral hoaxes, together with their formats and characteristics.
A growing anti-Russian sentiment has been reported in several European countries since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The scenario is complex and diverse across Europe.
The EU DisinfoLab impact-risk index offers an approach to assess the potential impact of single hoaxes. The method goes through a list of eight indicators related to the virality and engagement of a single disinformative content.
This Digital Services Act User-Guide will answer all the questions you might have about the upcoming DSA, a groundbreaking law on internet safety and platform accountability.