March 21, 2024 Disinformation about the war in Ukraine increased by a few percentage points, going from 7% in January to 10% the following month. Disinformation about immigration and disinformation about the EU also increased, even if more moderately. View the month’s monthly report as compiled by EDMO’s fact-checking team here.
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
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February 19, 2024 The European Digital Media Observatory has identified the increase in disinformation related to the farmers’ protests in many countries of the European Union in January – following smaller rallies in the previous months. As noted in the relevant January brief, several false reports began to inflate the extent of the protests, using
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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.
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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
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December 8, 2023 The MedDMO Media Plurality Report is an annual publication that aims to present and assess the plurality and diversity of the news media ecosystem in the three countries comprising the Mediterranean Digital Media Observatory Hub: Cyprus, Greece and Malta. The report, created under Work Package 5, is the outcome of a comprehensive
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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 17, 2023 The highest relative percentage of fake news recorded since April 2022 on a single topic in Europe belongs to the Israel-Hamas conflict during October 2023. In particular, 573 cases of fake stories revolved around it, out of a total of 1,576, i.e. a percentage of almost 36%. The most recent similar case
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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,
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