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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 article reviews how users can appeal (in)action taken against content and/or accounts on four major social media platforms. It provides policy advice in the context of the next steps of the EU Digital Services Act (DSA), in particular Article 17 concerning internal complaint handling and redress mechanisms.
- Blog Posts
The investigation identifies online groups that offer users the possibility to become members of the Illuminati upon payment of a membership fee. The study unveils an under-investigated phenomenon, which combines potential online scams and dangerous conspiracy beliefs about the deep state.
- Studies
The VUB and EU DisinfoLab have joined forces under the EDMO Belux project to publish an investigation, “From Infodemic to Information War”, about the evolution and convergence of disinformative narratives around the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
- Blog Posts
Ana Romero-Vicente, Researcher at EU DisinfoLab
Executive Summary
The study tackles a dozen disinformation websites to explore a fairly under-researched phenomenon on the rise in wake of the pandemic: requesting donations from readers in the form of cryptocurrencies.
- Blog Posts
During the 2021 German federal elections, satirical campaigns, set up by activists group, spread online and offline. When does satire become disinformation?
- Blog Posts
The last French presidential election five years ago was marked by the Macron Leaks and the spectacular dissemination of data. Even before the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, securing the 2022 presidential election was a priority, for state actors, civil society, and platforms alike.
- Blog Posts
This analysis provides a snapshot of common disinformation trends that have been spreading since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine. All research is based on fact-checks published by networks such as #UkraineFacts and EDMO.
- Studies
By Maria Giovanna Sessa, Senior Researcher at EU DisinfoLab
Executive summary
As the perception of expertise has now become a question of credibility over competence, the research identifies a three-fold typology of actors who, being publicly recognised as experts despite their lack of knowledge on COVID-19, consistently transmitted disinformation in Italy during the first year of the pandemic.
- Blog Posts
Disinformation experts need effective complaint and redress mechanisms. How else will we be heard when social media platforms make mistakes?
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By Roman Adamczyk, EU DisinfoLab Research Coordinator
Disinformation is often perceived as a complex topic where malicious actors, mostly linked to states, use sophisticated techniques to spread misleading or false content to large audiences.
- Blog Posts
By Ana Romero-Vicente, EU DisinfoLab Researcher
Introduction
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube have all taken additional steps to crack down on Covid-19 falsehoods, although it is proven that they are not always effective, and their AI detection system fails to remove most of the problematic content.
- Studies
By Maria Giovanna Sessa, Research Coordinator at EU DisinfoLab
The research focuses on the targets of COVID-19 disinformation during the pandemic in Italy between the start of 2020 and mid-2021.