Who’s afraid of the electric car? The Narrative War Delaying Climate Action in Europe
A joint report by Science Feedback and Newtral reveals that climate disinformation on transport is not the result of isolated…
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Online misinformation pays. Why? Taking stock of a broad range of evidence
This report examines the financial infrastructure that enables misinformation in Europe through a broad analysis of advertising and monetization practices across major social media platforms and services offering ads on the open web (Facebook, Twitter/X, YouTube and Google Display Ads).
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Slay News’ Frank Bergman isn’t a real person. We investigate who’s running misinformation site
Science Feedback investigation uncovers Slay News’ links to Paul Roughsedge, co-founder of One Fox Digital, a UK-based IT consultancy.
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Sanctioned but Thriving: How Online Platforms Fail To Address the Widespread Presence of Entities Under EU Sanctions
given the ease with which such illegal content was discovered, Meta, Google, X/Twitter, TikTok and Telegram’s compliance teams should investigate why they seem not to have taken sufficient action to limit access.
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An unfair (algorithmic?) advantage: a popularity premium for low-credibility accounts on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram before the 2024 European Parliament elections
Analysis of YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram data in the run-up to the 2024 European Parliament elections campaign highlight a substantial “popularity premium” benefitting low-credibility accounts when compared to a control group of high-credibility accounts
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Despite Community Notes, most content reviewed by fact-checkers in Europe goes unaddressed on X/Twitter
While X is presenting the crowd-sourced Community Notes system as a substitute for professional fact-checking, our results show that in a European context, Community Notes (and more broadly, X’s content moderation systems) fail to identify the posts flagged by professional fact-checkers, leaving misleading and oftentimes highly-viral content unaddressed.
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Twitter/X fails to act on Doppelganger-related notices
it appears that X has left the network almost completely untouched: of the 663 tweets that were online as of the report’s publication on 4 September, 656 were still accessible as of 25 September.
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European Union: Sanctioned Russian media entities and individuals’ content accessible on Telegram
Report co-author: Saman Nazari, Alliance4Europe This report is the fifth in a series looking at major online platforms’ enforcement of…
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Fool me once: Russian Influence Operation Doppelganger continues on X and Facebook – French chapter
In order to reach its objectives, the influence operation attempts to make use of domestic news or context, often trying to frame the tweets in the context of larger French political debates.
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European Union: Sanctioned Russian media entities and individuals’ content accessible on Facebook and other Meta services
Despite these legal provisions, as of late July 2024, several Meta services—including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp— still make content produced by sanctioned Russian state-controlled media and sanctioned media personalities accessible to European audiences.
