A Russian-based information operation used fake accounts, forged documents, and dozens of online platforms to spread stories that attacked Western interests and unity. Its size and complexity indicated that it was conducted by a…

Geopolitical competitors in Europe increasingly incorporate hybrid threats into their arsenals and develop them. This amorphous set of threats is below war, allowing other powers to exploit existing social divisions and to resemble…

Georgia, Belarus, and Ukraine were the main targets of the pro-Kremlin disinformation media at the neginning of July. Three countries,  also the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the United States of America, the German…

Content moderation on social media platforms is no longer as easy as moderating content that is nudity and violence, and the right to privacy of users makes it impossible to contextualize the influence and tendency to their disinformation.…

EU has developed an action plan against disinformation based on the principles of transparency and accountability. European officials increased funds to identify and expose misinformation and set up a rapid alert system. Google, Facebook,…

In September last year, in Sweden were held elections. Since the beginning of the electoral process, several misinformation campaigns have been identified in countries such as the USA, France and Ukraine. For this reason, Sweden has…

The basic objective of Russian propaganda is to keep the Republic of Moldova in the area, of Kremlin ​​influence. To achieve this, Russia used the most effective tools - mass media. They promote the idea that Russia have geo-political…

The EU has been increasingly caught up in its own internal struggles over the past years . As usual, Moscow has three main instruments to exert significant political influence. Its main weapons to do so are: - direct military intervention…

Moldova needs to urgently build its resilience to a new era of hybrid threats, according to a public discussion organised by IWPR and the country’s Foreign Policy Association.According to experts, hybrid threats can range from…

A multimedia project by the New York Times reveals how the current Kremlin misinformation campaigns come from a long tradition.Entitled "Operation Infection", the series tells the story of a "political virus", invented decades ago by…