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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.