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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.
Malta: Anti-abortion misinformation report
Abortion remains a contentious issue in Malta, the only EU country to prohibit the practice, except in cases where the mother's life is at risk. ...