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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. …

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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 …

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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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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 …

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September 21, 2023 Read the analytical findings of EDMO here.

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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 …

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June 15, 2023 The scope of disinformation related to Ukraine and the coronavirus pandemic in May in the European Union continues to move steadily, while cases of disinformation related to climate change continue to increase. This is the central conclusion of the information note of the European Digital Media Observatory for the month of May, …

New brief from EDMO: Climate change disinformation on the rise in May Read More »