Co-organised by the EDMO Fact-Checking Network, the EFCSN and the European Parliament, the two-day conference (March 25-26) will begin with a conversation with Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen, focused on the role of fact-checkers in the protection of European democracy. Please note that this event is in-person only and seats are limited.

“Musk has transformed X into a powerful tool for amplifying and mainstreaming his ideas and those of the political faction he supports. In this global propaganda operation, false and misleading narratives spread by far-right social networks play a central role, which the owner of X has systematized.” Read the latest EDMO investigation by Facta.

Attended by over 100 participants, the EDMO Training Series on Health Disinformation was the first of several training packages related to disinformation on specific topics. In two modules which you can re-watch here, the series outlined how health disinformation has often been linked to Covid-19 but goes far beyond and intertwines with further topics and domains.

Re-watch our event with experts Christina Elmer (GADMO), Madalina Botan (BROD), Paweł Terpiłowski (CEDMO), and Tommaso Canetta (EDMO). Unpacking several harmful dynamics around digital political communication as well as national experiences in countering those, the panel offers latest take-aways on electoral disinformation and preparedness.

Greenland’s election was one of the most consequential in its history, with global implications. EDMO talked with Thomas Hedin (TjekDet, NORDIS), who highlighted how disinformation shaped the campaign, including false claims that Denmark could sell Greenland to the U.S. Watch the interview.

IDMO’s free video courses and online games, the BELUX Lunch Lecture on skeptical climate crisis arguments, the new “Empower Educators” resource by BECID, and a Balkan-focused initiative by BROD, are some of the initiatives of this month’s Media Literacy Digest. Read the new edition compiled by Media and Learning Association.

A new bilingual English/French special issue of Recherches en communication explores the links between disinformation and inequalities – an area often overlooked in research and public discourse. Led by EDMO BELUX, this initiative brings together experts to examine how inequalities shape and are shaped by the production, circulation, and impact of misinformation.

Facebook and TikTok were key platforms for spreading AI-generated disinformation, targeting candidates with varying levels of user engagement. The findings of this report mirror trends from the previous Parliamentary elections, where AI-assisted cheapfakes served as the primary method of manipulation.

The TruthTalks podcast is a series by Euractiv.pl supported by European Media and Information Fund (EMIF). Recent episodes featured representatives of the EDMO Hubs from Estonia (BECID), Malta (MedDMO), Hungary (HDMO), Croatia (ADMO), Finland (NORDIS), the Czech Republic (CEDMO), and Belgium (BELUX). Find all episodes in our article.