Welcome to Disinfo Bulletin, your daily update from the EDMO network. Today's most relevant stories: 

🇪🇺 The false story that Ursula von der Leyen belongs to a family linked with Nazism. Recent online claims allege that the president of the EU Commission has family connections to Nazi officials. This unfounded information has been already circulated in the past but gained traction again in the past few weeks. Recently, these accusations have been debunked by multiple fact-checking organizations, revealing no evidence of such ancestry. These false stories are consistent with disinformation narratives trying to depict EU institutions and their representatives as anti-democratic. This content was detected in: DE, CZ, IT, HU, HR, and others. 

🕒 The false story that the European Union has postponed the switch to summertime due to Ramadan. On March 31, European countries switched to daylight saving time, moving clocks forward one hour from Standard Time. Instead, according to false information circulated in two countries just before the date, the EU institutions postponed the switch to Summer Time, supposedly to allow Ramadan observers to eat “one hour earlier”. This content was detected in: DE, PT. 

🇵🇱 The conspiracy theory that Poland is disappearing from European maps. False content on TikTok circulating in Polish suggests that “Dutch media” only share maps of Europe that do not include Poland, which would imply that the country’s borders no longer exist. The voice in the video claims it is the “Partition of Poland in 2024”, suggesting a conspiracy to annex the country, but the image is taken from a game on Reddit.This content was detected in: PL. 

🎯Check out the first output of the EDMO Task Force on 2024 EU Elections. It is a report on the disinformation narratives circulated in the context of the various national elections held in EU and Council of Europe member states in 2023. You can find the latest and most updated version here: Disinformation narratives during the 2023 elections in Europe.

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