Fact check: Israel spends vast sums on propaganda ads โ DW โ 09/08/2025
Israel spends millions of euros on propaganda, much of it targeted at European audiences. A series of videos seek to downplay Gaza food scarcity.
๐ฌ @tommasocanetta.bsky.social notes that the #Palestinian side is also actively spreading #disinformation; however, "it's clear that right now we are seeing more disinformation coming from the pro #Israel side of things."
๐๏ธ Read the full DW report: www.dw.com/en/israel-pr...
11.09.2025 11:18 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐ต Despite #Facebook's policies against #hatespeech and #Holocaust denial, the platfomsโ #monetization #algorithms promote deceptive #AI #Holocaust content by recommending it to users interested in historical topics: read the new investigation by @provereno.bsky.social at loom.ly/uJXLvN4.
18.06.2025 10:23 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
"Don't believe everything you see online": a message you'd expect to hear from the community working to counter #disinformation โ but also from those ๐๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด it? 1/6
๐งต Read the thread below or head straight to our latest #factchecking brief: loom.ly/J1RMb_c
13.06.2025 15:13 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Metaโs Failure to Curb Digital Scams: The Alarming Spread of Fraud on Facebook and Instagram in the EU
The widespread circulation of #scams on #Facebook and #Instagram highlights the limitations of #Meta's current #contentmoderation and #advertising review systems, write @thanossitistas.bsky.social & @cianellaaa.bsky.social in the latest EDMO investigation: loom.ly/nxDJeqs
12.06.2025 09:07 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
๐ญ๐บ A proposed bill in Hungary could allow the government to label โforeign-fundedโ orgs as threats to sovereignty, harming independent journalism & civil society. Fact-checker Lakmusz is at risk of losing 100% of funding.
Full statement by Lakmusz (EN/HU) ๐ shorturl.at/I47ZM
28.05.2025 13:41 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
โDeath, death, deathโ: setting the record straight on Trumpโs South Africa farm murder spectacle
As the country debates THAT White House meeting, we took a closer look at some of the claims traded in the Oval Office.
1/6 US president Donald Trump turned a diplomatic meeting into a theatre of #misinformation โ making false claims about the victims and perpetrators of farm attacks in #SouthAfrica.
We fact-checked the claims behind THAT meeting in the Oval Office. ๐งต africacheck.info/trump_farm_m...
26.05.2025 14:24 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 2
Marking the "culmination of months of political uncertainty", yesterday's first round of the #Romanian presidential #election saw several notable incidents, as @brodhub.bsky.social partner Funky Citizens shows in their latest analysis: edmo.eu/edmo-news/ro...
05.05.2025 13:25 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
4 - Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
03.04.2025 12:50 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Today is a good day to remember Cipolla's Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, in particular the 3rd and the 4th:
3 - A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses (see graph)
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03.04.2025 12:50 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
โFacts Matter,โ says Stephen Fry. โVerifiable, testable, provable facts.โ
Fact checking is vital in the fight against global misinformation. This #FactCheckingDay, show your support for accurate information. Tell the world why #FactsMatter.
02.04.2025 12:02 โ ๐ 570 ๐ 169 ๐ฌ 12 ๐ 15
Special committee on the European Democracy Shield Ordinary meeting - Multimedia Centre
The multimedia platform of the European Parliament is the official public available repository of the media production of the Secretariat of the European Parliament, managed by the Directorate-General...
Today EDMO Fact-Checking coordinator
@tommasocanetta.bsky.social and Executive Board Chair Paolo Cesarini are at the Special committee on the European Democracy Shield Meeting discussing the role of fact-checking, research and media literacy on defending democracy
Watch the live: loom.ly/rMrGTck
27.03.2025 09:04 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Democracy Matters โ Facts Matter: Join our Joint Conference on Fact-Checking on 25-26 March in Brussels!
๐ฃ Join EFCSN.com, @europarl.europa.eu & the EDMO #FactChecking Network in Brussels next week!
๐ Request your seat & see what highlights to expect, including a conversation w/ @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social on the role of #factcheckers in the protection of European #democracy: loom.ly/yQUFAD0
18.03.2025 16:23 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
"The EU is non-democratic" can be a legitimate opinion, but is also a disinformation narrative considering that it has been hammered (via media&social media) through demonstrably false content, like, eg. Von der Leyen never said that free speech is a virus and censorship a vaccine
17.03.2025 15:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Ps. we define a "disinformation narrative" as a clear message that emerges from a consistent set of contents that can be demonstrated as false using the fact-checking methodology. This bottom-up definition is very good, but there's the issue of the possible overlap with opinions. I'll explain ๐
17.03.2025 15:47 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
In February Trump's and other US officials' statements gave new strength and circulation in the EU to different disinformation narratives about Ukraine + the ideology of the new US administration is also fueling disinformation narratives about the undemocratic-censor nature of the EU/Member States
17.03.2025 15:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Come funziona la potente macchina disinformativa di Elon Musk | Facta
Il proprietario di X usa notizie false e teorie cospirative di estrema destra per screditare gli avversari politici e veicolare le proprie...
Il proprietario di X usa notizie false e teorie cospirative di estrema destra per screditare gli avversari politici e veicolare le proprie battaglie ideologiche | @azitelli.bsky.social
17.03.2025 13:43 โ ๐ 23 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Did I got this right? Putin claims that Ukrainians are encircled in #Kursk. US intelligence, many experts and correspondents, aside from Ukrainian authorities, deny this. Trump says that Ukrainians are encircled in Kursk.
Basically a US president trusting the Kremlin over US intelligence?
14.03.2025 18:16 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Lโaggressore del capotreno di Genova non รจ libero: Salvini non dice la veritร
Ce lโha confermato la sua avvocata, smentendo quanto scritto dal leader della Lega
โ Secondo Matteo Salvini, lโuomo che a novembre ha accoltellato un capotreno a Genova ยซรจ giร liberoยป, e se lโรจ cavata con ยซdue lettere di scuse e un minirisarcimentoยป. Le cose non stanno cosรฌ, per almeno due motivi.
12.03.2025 11:24 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
Vi presentiamo Dora, la nostra piattaforma di media literacy | Facta
Creata da Facta e Pagella Politica, offre percorsi di formazione per aiutare i cittadini a orientarsi nel mondo dellโinformazione con fiducia...
Si parla da tempo della necessitร di una maggiore educazione ai media: mostrare quindi ai cittadini le tecniche e i meccanismi di verifica per navigare in autonomia nel mare dellโinformazione. Con questa idea abbiamo lanciato Dora, il nostro portale di video corsi | @giovannizagni.bsky.social
06.03.2025 14:36 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The wind is changing in Europe
26.02.2025 14:23 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
EFCSN condemns police raid on Serbian member Istinomer.rs โ European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN)
25 February 2025 โ The European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN) strongly condemns the police raid on our Serbian member, CRTA...
EDMO stands with the Serbian Center for Research, Transparency & Accountability, operating the fact-checking organisation Istinomer, EFCSN member.
Their premises were raided by the police. This is unacceptable and an attack on freedom of expression & free press.
EFCSN statement: loom.ly/52my80A
25.02.2025 13:47 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
What role did #disinformation play in yesterday's German #election? How can #Romania, #Poland & the #EU at large prepare for theirs?
๐ Join our event: loom.ly/ta4stzM
@brodhub.bsky.social @cedmohub.bsky.social @demagog.org.pl @tommasocanetta.bsky.social @elmerch.bsky.social @goripaula.bsky.social
24.02.2025 15:45 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2
Le bugie di Trump sullโUcraina ricalcano la propaganda russa | Facta
Il presidente americano ha definito โdittatoreโ lโomologo ucraino che incolpa di aver iniziato la guerra, facendo proprie diverse altre falsitร ...
๐บ๐ธ๐ค๐ท๐บ Le bugie di Trump sullโUcraina ricalcano la propaganda russa. Il presidente americano ha definito โdittatoreโ lโomologo ucraino che incolpa di aver iniziato la guerra, facendo proprie diverse altre falsitร promosse dal Cremlino | @enzopanizio.bsky.social
21.02.2025 16:10 โ ๐ 22 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
New investigation: Trumpโs lies about Zelensky, US aid to Ukraine and the responsibility of the war
"Responsibility for the large-scale invasion of February 2022 lies entirely on the shoulders of Russia", writes EDMO #FactChecking Coordinator @tommasocanetta.bsky.social.
๐ Read his facts-based analysis of Donald Trump's recent statements about #Ukraine: loom.ly/k4kHVdc
21.02.2025 10:21 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
New EDMO Fact-Checking Brief: Disinformation in January suggests that the EU overturns national elections
Another reason why professional, independent #factcheckers are indispensable: empirical insight.
Last month, 37 member organisations of our #factchecking network produced 1.642 articles on #disinformation pieces in the #EU.
๐ Based on this vital work, here are our key observations: loom.ly/xZwqr6s
19.02.2025 13:13 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Factchecking Donald Trumpโs claims about the war in Ukraine
As US-Russia talks continue in Saudi Arabia, we look at the US presidentโs misleading and outright false statements
Here's why fact checking matters.
Trump gives misleading and false statements about the war in Ukraine.
@theguardian.com provides the facts on five of these statements.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
19.02.2025 13:23 โ ๐ 46 ๐ 20 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
The fact that Trump lives in a disinformation space, like Zelensky clearly stated, is not opinion, it's a fact. Like who begun the war it's not an opinion, but a fact. Or who democratically won the 2020 US elections.
19.02.2025 12:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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๐ป Fellow, @HIIGberlin.bsky.social
๐ช๐บ AI Expert, @coe.int
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https://www.benmshultz.com | ๐Berlin
Hub italiano di @edmo-eu.bsky.social ๐ช๐บ Contrasto alla disinformazione online, ricerca, fact-checking e media literacy #UnitedAgainstDisinformation
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