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MedDMO team publishes study on disinformation in the Mediterranean
A study published by the MedDMO team in the Online Information Review focuses on the perception of disinformation among journalism students in Greece, Cyprus and ...
Greece: Disinformation report on the emergence of deepfake scams on Facebook
Through this report, by focusing on Facebook, MedDMO demonstrates that deepfake-powered scams have emerged on social media platforms in Greece. Since late 2022, fact-checkers have ...
MedDMO Media Plurality Report 2024
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 ...
Cyprus: Report on COVID-19 disinformation
Multiple false narratives about COVID-19 vaccines and their alleged harmful effects have spread across Cyprus, including fabricated stories about celebrity deaths caused by vaccines, distorted ...
Cyprus: Report on alternative medicine disinformation
This report examines a disinformation campaign promoting various unproven alternative medicine therapies and substances as miraculous cures for serious medical conditions. These narratives exploit people's desire ...
Malta: Disinformation report on Manoel Island concession narratives
In 2000, the Maltese government granted a private company a 99-year lease to develop two abandoned sites steeped in history on Malta’s north-eastern coast, including ...
Greece: COVID-19 Vaccine Mis/Disinformation
Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic, disinformation about vaccines remains widespread across Greece. Some falsely claim that vaccines are linked to aggressive forms of cancer, ...
Malta: Report on political disinformation against civil society
In a country that suffers from deep polarisation, protest for political accountability is dismissed as a partisan act. Malta’s ruling party, the Labour Party, particularly capitalised on ...
Cyprus: Disinformation report on misleading claims about the Russian-Ukraine war spread through podcasts by MEP Feidias Panagiotou
The podcast run by controversial MEP Feidias Panagiotou has featured a series of misleading claims about the Russian-Ukraine war, including descriptions of the conflict as ...
Monitoring Meta, Google, and TikTok’s practices to combat Disinformation in Greece, Cyprus, and Malta: MedDMO 2nd Annual Report – Part B (2024)
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 ...
Cyprus: Disinformation report on Ukraine “Playing a Double Game” with America and Europe
Ukraine is frequently depicted as playing a double game with its key Western allies through a series of false or misleading claims about land ownership, ...
Cyprus: Disinformation report on the International Community “Abandoning” Ukraine
This report examines several false claims shared across Cyprus about the alleged dwindling support that the Ukrainian cause is enjoying around Europe.











