Voters’ decision-making processes are dependent on emotions. One of the techniques in Russia’s Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) efforts is to influence the emotional state of the voters. One of the techniques used is intimidation, which in recent months has been prominent in Russia’s FIMI activities. The...
Collaborative Defense: Tackling Disinformation against the EU Elections
What is the Counter Disinformation Network? The Counter Disinformation Network started as an initiative to create a collaboration between European organisations and independent researchers to monitor attacks against the EU elections. Participants range from civil society organisations, universities, think tanks, journalists, independent...
Salvini and Lega’s electoral campaign uses non-watermarked AI images
Author: Saman Nazari, Alliance4Europe, Claudia De Sessa, Alliance4Europe (Updated – 19/07/2024) This Flash report was made possible through a collaboration facilitated by the Counter Disinformation Network. Case Between 22 May and 9 June 2024, Matteo Salvini (MEP candidate, head of the Italian “Lega” party and Italian Minister for Transport...
Sanctioned Russian Media Entities and Individuals Accessible on TikTok
Authors: Rikard Friberg von Sydow, Södertörn University Saman Nazari, Alliance4Europe. Contributor: Science Feedback This Flash report was made possible through a collaboration facilitated by the Counter Disinformation Network. Case As a response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine which started in 2014 and reached full-scale...
EU Elections Network
Alliance4Europe (A4E), together with 29 partner organisations, has set up an EU Election Network to protect the June European Parliament (EP) elections from domestic and foreign disinformation threats and to work in collaboration with like-minded initiatives. The Network is working on coordinating common responses and recommendations and...
Benin-based FB Page Attacking Macron & Ukraine
29/05/2024 Authors: Kristina Gildejeva, Independent, Saman Nazari , Alliance4Europe . This Flash report was made possible through a collaboration facilitated by the EU Elections Network. Note: this report contains un-archived links. We have found no reliable way to archive Facebook links. Case The Facebook page Patriotes de France is running ads...