Tommaso Canetta

💬 @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."

🗞️ Read the full DW report: www.dw.com/en/israel-pr...

Questa foto dei leader europei a capo chino in attesa alla Casa Bianca è falsa | Facta È stata creata con l’intelligenza artificiale

This photo of "humiliated" EU leaders is everywhere online.
This photo is false, it's AI-generated:

www.facta.news/antibufale/m...

💵 Despite #Facebook's policies against #hatespeech and #Holocaust denial, the platfoms’ #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.

"Don't believe everything you see online": a message you'd expect to hear from the community working to counter #disinformation – but also from those 𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 it? 1/6

🧵 Read the thread below or head straight to our latest #factchecking brief: loom.ly/J1RMb_c

Meta’s 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

🇭🇺 A proposed bill in Hungary could allow the government to label “foreign-funded” 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) 👉 shorturl.at/I47ZM

‘Death, death, death’: setting the record straight on Trump’s 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 – 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. 🧵 africacheck.info/trump_farm_m...

Dentro il Remigration summit di Gallarate, tra teorie del complotto ed estremisti in giacca e cravatta | Facta Chi c’era e cosa è stato detto durante il raduno dell’estrema destra che sogna di deportare richiedenti asilo e immigrati regolari

Dentro il Remigration summit di Gallarate, tra teorie del complotto ed estremisti in giacca e cravatta | @sulcomplottismo.bsky.social‬

Zelensky che compra cose, il filone disinformativo preferito dalla propaganda russa | Facta Una sotto-narrazione che il Cremlino martella con impressionante accanimento nelle opinioni pubbliche occidentali

Zelensky che compra cose, il filone disinformativo preferito dalla propaganda russa | @tommasocanetta.bsky.social

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...

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.

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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“Facts Matter,” says Stephen Fry. “Verifiable, testable, provable facts.”

Fact checking is vital in the fight against global misinformation. This #FactCheckingDay, show your support for accurate information. Tell the world why #FactsMatter.

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

Democracy Matters – Facts Matter: Join our Joint Conference on Fact-Checking on 25-26 March in Brussels!

📣 Join EFCSN.com, @europarl.europa.eu & the EDMO #FactChecking Network in Brussels next week!

👉 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

"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

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 👇

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

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

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?

L’aggressore del capotreno di Genova non è libero: Salvini non dice la verità Ce l’ha confermato la sua avvocata, smentendo quanto scritto dal leader della Lega

❌ Secondo Matteo Salvini, l’uomo che a novembre ha accoltellato un capotreno a Genova «è già libero», e se l’è cavata con «due lettere di scuse e un minirisarcimento». Le cose non stanno così, per almeno due motivi.

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 dell’informazione con fiducia...

Si parla da tempo della necessità di una maggiore educazione ai media: mostrare quindi ai cittadini le tecniche e i meccanismi di verifica per navigare in autonomia nel mare dell’informazione. Con questa idea abbiamo lanciato Dora, il nostro portale di video corsi | @giovannizagni.bsky.social

The wind is changing in Europe

EFCSN condemns police raid on Serbian member Istinomer.rs – European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN) 25 February 2025 – 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

What role did #disinformation play in yesterday's German #election? How can #Romania, #Poland & the #EU at large prepare for theirs?

👉 Join our event: loom.ly/ta4stzM

@brodhub.bsky.social @cedmohub.bsky.social @demagog.org.pl @tommasocanetta.bsky.social @elmerch.bsky.social @goripaula.bsky.social

Le bugie di Trump sull’Ucraina ricalcano la propaganda russa | Facta Il presidente americano ha definito “dittatore” l’omologo ucraino che incolpa di aver iniziato la guerra, facendo proprie diverse altre falsità...

🇺🇸🤝🇷🇺 Le bugie di Trump sull’Ucraina ricalcano la propaganda russa. Il presidente americano ha definito “dittatore” l’omologo ucraino che incolpa di aver iniziato la guerra, facendo proprie diverse altre falsità promosse dal Cremlino | @enzopanizio.bsky.social

New investigation: Trump’s 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.

👉 Read his facts-based analysis of Donald Trump's recent statements about #Ukraine: loom.ly/k4kHVdc

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.

👉 Based on this vital work, here are our key observations: loom.ly/xZwqr6s

Factchecking Donald Trump’s claims about the war in Ukraine As US-Russia talks continue in Saudi Arabia, we look at the US president’s 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...

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.