MedDMO Reports

Malta is no stranger to political disinformation. As a country dominated by the two larger parties – the Labour Party (Partit Laburista) and Nationalist Party (Partit Nazzjonalista) – polarisation and rivalry fuel false and misleading narratives directed at maintaining power. In the run up to an election, this is only more evident.

June 25, 2026 We publish our Ex-post Analysis of the Rapid Response System (RRS) during the 2026 Cyprus Parliamentary Elections, focusing on paid political advertising and platform enforcement practices. Over the course of the election campaign, our team monitored thousands of advertisements across major online platforms and participated in the EU Code of Conduct on

June 25, 2026 Today we are publishing a new analysis examining anonymous third-party political advertising during the 2026 Cyprus Parliamentary Elections. The report documents five separate anonymous advertising operations identified through systematic monitoring of paid political content across social media platforms. Together, these operations accounted for more than 450 political advertisements and targeted voters during

June 10, 2026 On 27th April, Robert Abela, Prime Minister of Malta, called the country’s general election for 30th May, a year before the Labour Party administration’s term was due to end. As this was a snap election, MedDMO’s Maltese team was onboarded into the rapid response system (RRS) at short notice. The Maltese team

In January 2026, a covertly recorded video alleging irregularities in the financing of Nikos Christodoulides’s 2023 presidential campaign surfaced on X under the account “Emily Thompson” and, within hours, spread into Cypriot broadcast and online media.

In this report, we present the work conducted under Work Package 5 regarding the monitoring of media plurality in the region of Greece, Cyprus and Malta. The report examines the plurality and diversity of the news media ecosystem in 2024 in the three countries comprising the Mediterranean Digital Media Observatory (MedDMO) Hub.

This is the second part of MedDMO’s annual report on platform practices and national authority support for Cyprus, Greece, and Malta. Covering the period from 1 January to 30 June 2024, the report offers a qualitative assessment of how…

This document is the first part of MedDMO’s annual report, detailing our monitoring of the media ecosystems in Cyprus, Greece, and Malta and evaluating platform practices to counter disinformation in support of National Authorities.

In this report, we present the work conducted under Work Package 5 regarding the monitoring of media plurality in the region of Greece, Cyprus and Malta. The report examines the plurality and diversity of the news media ecosystem in 2023 in the three countries comprising the Mediterranean Digital Media Observatory (MedDMO) Hub. It follows last year’s Media Plurality Report and is the second release in an annual series published by MedDMO. The report is the outcome of a comprehensive review, data collection, and analysis of resources focused on the plurality and diversity of the three different news media ecosystems. It is based on the annual Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM), International Press Institute, European Centre for Press, Media and Freedom and national reports, incorporating advice and feedback from community members as well as data from various valuable sources and scientific publications.

This is the MedDMO annual report detailing the results of monitoring the online platform practices towards supporting the national authorities of Cyprus,