Panagiotis Ntatzis

MedDMO emerged as one of the top winners at the 32nd edition of Malta’s journalism awards, with two MedDMO and Times of Malta fact-checks taking home the top prize in their respective field during an awards ceremony held on Saturday 30 November.

Malta grapples with a major disinformation problem as a result of its highly polarised political environment. The problem got worse in the years following the 2017 assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, an investigative journalist who uncovered some of the biggest political scandals in the archipelago’s history.

Andreas Veglis, professor of journalism at AUTH, had the opportunity to present the activities and purposes of the Mediterranean Digital Media Observatory to a wide audience – including students.

July 10, 2024 An educational seminar on the topic of “Disinformation and Content Verification Practices” took place on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, at the University of Cyprus (UCY) in Nicosia. The event was aimed at high school students (aged 15 to 18) and was conducted within the context of the MedDMO and the 2024 UCY

June 20, 2024 Dr. Nikos Salamanos from the Cyprus University of Technology presented a research paper on detecting disinformation on X (formerly Twitter) at the 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM’24) in Buffalo, USA. This research is a collaboration between the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), IMDEA Networks Madrid, and LSTECH

The next generation of journalists took part in a critical discussion Tuesday 11/6 at the University of Athens around the role of investigative journalism and the battle against disinformation in Europe, with MedDMO being invited at one of the panels.

May 23, 2024 Over 150 students in Malta got to participate in media and misinformation workshops organised by representatives from the University of Malta’s Department of Media and Communications in the past week. Sessions were held in San Andrea School, St Martin’s College and Junior College. The students, who ranged from 11 to 17, were

May 22, 2024 The role of the MedDMO in the European ecosystem that works to combat disinformation was highlighted by AUTH professor Andreas Veglis at a conference in Rhodes. The conference on “The role of journalism in local development and environmental protection in the region” was organized on the weekend of 18-19/5 by the Association

May 15, 2024 Researchers play a pivotal role in ensuring MedDMO’s impactful contribution to the fight against disinformation in Greece, Cyprus and Malta. In an interview for The Media & Learning Association (MLA), four of MedDMO’s researchers shed light on the leading players for the promotion of media literacy in the three countries, on the

In preparation for the upcoming European elections in June 2024, an educational activity was conducted at the University of Cyprus as part of the relevant initiatives of the Mediterranean Digital Media Observatory (MedDMO) on digital and media literacy.

A paper that is to be published in early June titled ‘Exploring Left-Wing Extremism on the Decentralized Web: An Analysis of Lemmygrad.ml ‘ acknowledges MedDMO.

Fifteen undergraduate students of the University of Neapolis in Paphos learned tangible ways of identifying and preventing disinformation, following an educational initiative by the Social Informatics Research Unit of TEPAK and Fact Check Cyprus, in collaboration with Greece Fact Check

Freshman Journalism students learned the… secrets of combating misinformation as it is carried out within the framework of MedDMO from Professor of AUTH, Andreas Veglis.

March 13, 2024 The MedDMO research project that started its journey to help combat disinformation in Greece, Cyprus and Malta in December 2022, continues its work for the next three days in Limassol. As part of an event that will take place on Thursday, March 14 between 10:30 – 12:15 in the Amphitheater of the

February 8, 2024 Disinformation about the Israel-Hamas war dropped significantly in December 2023, while disinformation about the EU, climate change, Ukraine and immigration increased. View the month’s monthly report as compiled by EDMO’s fact-checking team here.

January 17, 2024 The migration discourse in the era of fake news, as well as the protection of Malta’s media landscape in the digital age and the fostering of ethical use of AI were discussed thoroughly between academics, researchers, students, and NGOs during a disinformation-themed conference held at the University of Malta last Friday. Ġorġ Mallia

November 20, 2023 The Social Computing Research Centre of CUT (Home) announces the creation of the Anti-Disinformation Centre Fact-Check Cyprus (https://factcheckcyprus.org). This is the first anti-disinformation group established in Cyprus to study and refute false claims. It is the culmination of a collaboration of individuals involved in the fight against misinformation in Cyprus and Greece.

November 7, 2023 On November 2, 2023, the Mediterranean Digital Media Observatory (MedDMO) and the University of Cyprus participated in the first Cypriot-Estonian symposium titled “Cyprus and Estonia in the Face of Information Disorder: Media, Audiences, and State Institutions”. The event was organized by the Department of Communications, Centre for Communications Studies and Research at

October 26, 2023 Journalists from Malta, Greece and Cyprus will be receiving an introductory fact checking training today and tomorrow at the Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences in the University of Malta, carried out by the Ιnternational news agency Agence France-Presse. The initiative is part of MedDMO activities and will look, among other things,

October 3, 2023 An educational seminar on the topic of “Misinformation and content verification practices” took place on Monday, September 25, 2023, at the University of Cyprus library facilities in Nicosia. The event was aimed at all library staff members of the educational institution and was conducted within the context of the research program “Mediterranean

June 26, 2023 The research findings of common ground of misinformation in Greece, Cyprus and Malta enters its final stage, for the Mediterranean Observatory of Digital Media – under the auspices of the EU – whose operation began at the end of last year. This was revealed by its members who spoke about the evolution

May 26, 2023 With journalist Stamos Archontis from Ellinika Hoaxes, MedDMO participates in the action group set up by EDMO to combat disinformation ahead of the 2024 European elections. Building on the experience of the corresponding EDMO Task Force on disinformation about the war in Ukraine, the new task force plans to carry out a

April 4, 2023 At the University of Cyprus and more specifically in Nicosia, on March 29 and 30, representatives of the institutions and companies that make up the Mediterranean Digital Media Observatory, which was established last December with EU funds to develop tools and promote actions against disinformation, got together. In front of an academic

March 6, 2023 Representatives of MedDMO’s partners are set to meet up in Cyprus at the end of March 2023 for two days (29-30/3) The meeting will take place at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia. In the course of the meeting, the newly launched MedDMO website will be presented to members of the Press.

December 6, 2022 The Mediterranean Digital Media Observatory (MedDMO), the regional hub of the European Digital Media Observatory covering Greece, Cyprus and Malta was launched on December 1st 2022 in Thessaloniki. The two-year-and-a-half project brought together the participating partners involved in a two day kick off event. During the event, partners spoke about their area of