May 17, 2023 EDMO’s brief on the types of disinformation in Europe in April was released, with fake news around the coronavirus and the war in Ukraine decreasing significantly and fake news around climate change being stabilised. In particular, of the 1,402 fact-checks published by the 30 organizations cooperating with EDMO, 173 (12%) were related […]
March 23, 2023 According to the newly released EDMO brief, the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria in February, 2023 was major news and, as usually happens with major media stories, disinformation immediately followed. Covid and Ukraine-related disinformation remained stable in Febrouary; on the contrary, the topic of climate change seemed to be dropping.
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