The new online survey for stakeholders working on online disinformation will be open until 15 May 2022. Tell us about your needs and help us identify the most relevant topics for future EDMO training sessions.
On 15 March EDMO had the pleasure to receive the European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA) in Florence. The meeting set the lines for a deepened collaboration to tackle online disinformation including potential future collaboration in the context of the revised Code of Practice on Disinformation.
On 14 March, the EDMO Hubs met the Executive Board. This gathering was the occasion to present and discuss the plan for collaboration as well as the next steps for the growing EDMO community. On 11 February EDMO also met with the EU Small-scale Online Media Projects to learn more about their planned activities and kickstart collaboration with the EDMO network.
The calendar of EDMO trainings for 2022 is out. The broad and multidisciplinary offer includes multiple facets of the phenomenon of disinformation: neuroscience, history, EU policy, research and much more.
On 13 and 14 June, the EDMO 2022 Annual Conference will take place in Brussels. The event will bring together media and policy practitioners, media and information literacy experts, academics, online players and civil society organisations.
Check out 10 tips to help you know if and how to trust content related to the conflict in Ukraine.
The European Media and Information Fund (EMIF) opened a special funding round for urgent actions on Ukraine under the call “Boosting Fact-Checking Activities in Europe”.
An analysis of articles published by EDMO’s fact-checking network highlights five main disinformation narratives related to the war in Ukraine: instilling fear of a new global conflict, misleading representations of President Zelensky being a pro-Nazi, exaggerated tales of Ukrainian heroism, questioning the reality of the war and wrong information about refugees entering neighbouring EU states.
EDMO’s taskforce reacts to the recent cyberattacks targeting EDMO’s website, the websites of some EDMO Hubs and other institutions involved in the fight against disinformation related to the war in Ukraine. The taskforce experts recommend stakeholders to raise their cybersecurity levels.
The EDMO taskforce on disinformation on the war in Ukraine responds to the weaponisation of fact-checking by Russian propaganda through the dissemination of false fact-checking articles. Taskforce members call for awareness of these new practices that undermine measures against disinformation and urge EU political and media actors to take action to contain their spread.
Weekly Insights highlighting the main disinformation trends on the war in Ukraine are accessible on the EDMO dedicated webpage. They are based on the fact-checking analyses by the EDMO fact-checking network and provide an overview of the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the false narrative in circulation. Read the first two Weekly Insights.
Since 24 February, the members of EDMO’s fact-checking network have been at work to detect and debunk disinformation related to the war in Ukraine. EDMO has dedicated a special section of its website to collect all analyses published by its partner fact-checking organisations. Users can access them through filtered search.
Following the increasing circulation of disinformation related to the war in Ukraine, EDMO established an independent taskforce dedicated to collecting relevant materials to better understand disinformation trends and tackle disinformation campaigns spreading across the EU and EEA countries. The taskforce will collaborate with the EDMO Hubs and small-scale online media projects.
On 14 March, EDMO Executive Board gathered with the EDMO Hubs in Florence. Among others, a session was dedicated to set up the collaboration framework between the Hubs, the small-scale online media projects and the Taskforce on collection of relevant fact-checking material and media literacy initiatives about the war in Ukraine.
On 14 March, EDMO Executive Board gathered with the EDMO Hubs in Florence. Among others, a session was dedicated to set up the collaboration framework between the Hubs, the small-scale online media projects and the Taskforce on collection of relevant fact-checking material and media literacy initiatives about the war in Ukraine.
Following the establishment of the first eight EDMO Hubs under the EU Digital Europe Programme, a new call is open until 22 February. The Hubs will be part of a European multidisciplinary community that will detect, analyse and expose disinformation in Europe as well as provide knowledge of local information environments. On 15 December, EDMO held an information session on the call.
Lauri Tierala joined EDMO at the School of Transnational Governance in January as Programme Director. His new role will be crucial for the next stage of development of EDMO. The EDMO network welcomes him.
EDMO’s latest reports touch upon a wide range of topics such as trustworthiness of online sources, assessing the Code of Practice Signatories’ Covid-19 Reports or case law for policy making on disinformation.
Thanks to the joint efforts of its fact-checking community, EDMO has published five collaborative investigations and eight monthly fact-checking briefs. Check out the latest article on common patterns from the fact-checking briefs.
EDMO is seeking to become a vital resource for the media literacy community in Europe, providing expertise, ideas and opportunities for connection to empower media literacy practitioners in the fight against disinformation. Check out our media literacy plans.
