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

🏳️‍🌈 The conspiracy theory about the alleged elite’s secret plan to impose an LGBTQ+ agenda is resurfacing. One of the most insidious narratives targeting LGBTQ+ people suggests the willingness of the ruling class to impose the values of this minority on all citizens. Claims consistent with this rhetoric have recently been debunked in various countries. In Greece, it has been falsely claimed that the government had required every hotel in the country to display a rainbow flag, in Bulgaria that the Council of Europe wants children to change sex, and in Croatia that the WEF wants to legalize pedophilia, with which LGBTQ+ people are often unjustly linked by disinformation stories. Such claims were tracked in: EL, BG, HR.

🇪🇺 The false story that the EU is secretly reintroducing the death penalty. According to false claims spread via telegram channels, the EU would be reinstating the death penalty through the “back door”, thus allowing the killing of people in order to suppress an insurrection. These unproven allegations have been spread via Telegram channels within EU borders and also in candidate countries, in a clear attempt to discredit European institutions and undermine support for integration, as recently happened with the alleged refusal of the Euro by EU countries, also signaled in previous issues of this newsletter. This false story was detected in: HR and, outside the EU borders, BA.

🎯 Check out the latest issue of the EDMO Weekly Insights and Early Warnings ahead of the June elections. This week's edition looks at widespread disinformation narratives on climate and Ukraine that could undermine support for climate action and for the invaded nation in the run-up to election day. It also includes early warnings on how disinformation could exploit Iran’s attack on Israel and its consequences, and the interruption of the National Conservatism Conference in Brussels to target the EU. Read the full text here: WEEKLY INSIGHTS and EARLY WARNINGS, n. 2 

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