D. Trump’s Fake News Rises in February
A slew of false or misleading statements were made by US President-elect Donald Trump and other members of his administration in February 2025.
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Greece: Report on Pro-Russian disinformation targetting Zelensky
Ukraine was the target of Russian disinformation long before Russia launched its invasion in 2022, but new disinformation narratives about Volodymyr Zelensky, his wife and associates have emerged in the subsequent years.
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Greece: Report on Disinformation targetting the LGBTQ+ Community in Greece
In this narrative report, we examine the mis/disinformation that circulated online in Greece from January 2024 – during the public consultation and subsequent passage of the law – up until June, LGBTQ+ community’s Pride Month.
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Climate and migration misinformation rally in January
Disinformation about climate change and migration gained ground in January 2025, according to data from EDMO’s fact-checking network.
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MedDMO at a conference on fake news in Kozani
February 27, 2025 Professors from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki participated in a conference on fake news in Europe organized at the Koventareio Municipal Library of Kozani under the auspices of the city’s EPAL. In particular, Mr. Andreas Veglis and Charalambos Dimoulas, professors of the Department of Journalism & Media at the University, spoke about
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Report – Artificial Intelligence in the Service of Verification
This report examines the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in addressing the growing challenge of online disinformation. It provides an in-depth examination of AI-driven media verification techniques, focusing on automated fact-checking, text analysis, and detecting visual and multimodal disinformation, including deepfakes.
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MedDMO hub meeting in Athens
Our plenary meeting in Impact Hub Athens has been kicked off Thursday Feb. 6, bringing us together around the table to take stock of the project’s progress and gear up for the final months of its first round.
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Malta: Report on disinformation about COVID
Malta was no stranger to the Covid infodemic that travelled the world in recent years. This report trawls through some of the false and misleading claims that made their way to Malta’s shores.
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Greece: Report on disinformation regarding wildfires and wind turbines
This report examines misleading claims spread in Greece about renewable energy, focusing on a recurring misleading narrative linking wildfires to the construction of inland wind farms in burned areas.
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Disinformation wave: Islamophobic claims return in December
Disinformation about Syria saw a sharp rise in December, in the wake of the overthrow of the Assad regime by the country’s opposition forces.
The majority of false claims circulating on EU social media were clickbait and included the use of out-of-context images
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