Media Articles

The Guardian
October 13, 2026

The Guardian
October 13, 2026
Did Ukrainian strikes on Russian datacentres reduce online disinformation?

MLex
Meta sued in Germany over legal costs after Digital Services Act content dispute
October 8, 2026

Informationsdienst Wissenschaft
Disinformation and influence operations: Which countermeasures actually work?
October 7, 2026

How the ‘poisonous tide’ of disinformation spreads division and despair
The Guardian on the UK’s new National Centre for Information Defence: A4E’s head of research Ned Mendez called chasing single fake posts a “losers’ game” and welcomed the centre’s focus on disinformation networks as “a step in the right direction.”
September 24, 2026
September 18, 2026
Thousands of suspicious accounts followed Swedish political voices, researchers say
Euronews on Sweden’s election: A4E, with Trollrensics and SVT, exposed 8,500+ coordinated X accounts inflating the reach of Swedish political voices.
September 16, 2026
EU’s push to shield democracy from online risks hard to spot
Euractiv on the EU’s Democracy Shield a year on: A4E’s lead researcher Saman Nazari warns the European Centre for Democratic Resilience has potential but risks becoming just another “talking shop.”
September 12, 2026
Thousands of troll accounts from Africa take aim at Sweden ahead of the election
A report by Alliance4Europe and Trollrensics, published a day before the Swedish elections, identifying 8,505 Benin-based accounts targeting the Swedish information space on X.
September 12, 2026
African troll accounts set their sights on Sweden
An analysis by Trollrensics and Alliance4Europe revealing thousands of fake accounts run from Nigeria, Benin, Ivory Coast and Ghana that impersonate Swedish users on X and follow real accounts across the political spectrum.





