Research & Studies

In the wake of a series of tragic construction-related incidents in Malta, this report investigates a series of disinformation narratives linked to the construction industry, one of the pillars of Malta’s economy.

The report looks into several harmful and malicious scams that have circulated across Maltese social media over the past months. The scams frequently use recontextualised content, AI-generated deepfakes or other malicious techniques to lure unsuspecting viewers into their trap.

The report looks into several harmful and malicious scams that have circulated across Maltese social media over the past months. The scams frequently use recontextualised content, AI-generated deepfakes or other malicious techniques to lure unsuspecting viewers into their trap.

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky has been the frequent target of disinformation in Cyprus

This report looks into several disinformation narratives about migrants in Cyprus, many of them making false claims about the number of migrants in the country and claiming that migrants are causing social unrest and putting Cyprus’ ethnic, religious and cultural identity in jeopardy.

This report highlights a series of disinformation narratives surrounding a controversial deal to hand over three of Malta’s public hospitals to a private consortium. A magisterial inquiry into the deal, recommended criminal charges against several key government officials, has been the subject of much debate in recent months.

This report highlights a disinformation narrative involving clips from border crossings on the double security fence located in the border region between Serbia and Hungary. These clips were used to mislead users into believing that the crossings take place in Evros’ border fence, the border region between Greece and Turkey. This work aimed to develop an understanding of how this disinformation narrative was spread and by whom.

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

In the paper “HyperGraphDis: Leveraging Hypergraphs for Contextual and Social-Based Disinformation Detection,” we improved disinformation detection accuracy and computational efficiency on social media by introducing HyperGraphDis, a novel approach for detecting disinformation on Twitter