Unionized journalists won a landmark arbitration regarding AI adoption in their newsroom. The arbitrator found that the media management violated ToC when it rolled out two recent AI-powered editorial products. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/poli...

We congratulate our colleagues on the award and express our deep gratitude for the NTCenter's commitment to upholding our shared democratic values and principles through innovation in education and active citizenship, and their exceptional contributions to BROD. brodhub.eu/en/news/ntce...

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BROD partner NTCenter's Andy Stoychev will be among the main guests in the thematic module within the 2025 Plovdiv Science Festival (November 27-30), which brings together leading researchers and science communicators in the field of health. brodhub.eu/bg/news/andi...

The BROD hub partners CJI and Funky Citizens have released a joint position on Romania’s new National Defense Strategy 2025–2030. The draft strategy marks an important step by including hybrid threats and media education as national security priorities. brodhub.eu/en/news/posi...

@bfmi.bsky.social's report, Tackling TikTokracy: A blueprint for fighting algorithmic manipulation in Europe, published today, reveals how algorithmic influence operations intersect with fragile media ecosystems to shape democratic outcomes. www.balkanfreemedia.org/tackling-tik...

Romania’s information space is being shaped by a potent mix of nationalism, populism, conspiratorial mindset, and external influence. Authorities have so far struggled to counter it. Read the full report authored by Ciprian Cucu and reviewed by Madalina Botan. www.disinfo.eu/publications...

🇹🇿 Social media posts claimed that an image showed Tanzania's president fleeing the country by helicopter after her re-election. However, this is false; it actually showed a regional commissioner attending an elephant relocation operation two months earlier. Read more: u.afp.com/TZ

The second in a series of Media Capture Monitoring Reports for 2025 published today by @globalfreemedia.bsky.social and the Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) examines the state of play in Bulgaria. #EMFA ipi.media/bulgaria-med...

The #DSA requires that users should be able to report illegal content quickly and that platforms must act immediately when the reported material involves incitement to violence, hate speech, or other serious harm.

Fewer teens now believe that “disinformation impacts others more than myself” — a drop of 37% after NTCenter’s interventions under BROD 2.0. Awareness also rose that creators of disinformation understand human reactions and exploit them to influence opinions and behaviour. brodhub.eu/en/news/disi...

Between September 24 and 26, 2025, a mission was conducted in Bulgaria by partner organizations of the Council of Europe's Platform for the Safety of Journalists and the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) to assess the state of #MediaFreedom. aej-bulgaria.org/wp-content/u...

We live in an era of democratic backsliding and autocratization. Scholars and researchers are among those in the firing line. How should they respond? We will provide hints & guidance in a webinar on 13 November for the European Geophysical Union: You can register here:

What is Wikipedia actually, how is it constructed, how does it function, how and who creates it, what are its main principles in terms of information integrity, and what are the main challenges seen through the prism of the specific historical, social, and cultural context. tinyurl.com/3jmnkpk3

@costanzasciubba.bsky.social will be the keynote speaker of a session in the second day of the @sofiainfoforum.bsky.social dedicated to @wikipedia.org. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

The Senior Policy and Publication Manager at the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence (StratCom COE) Janis Karlsbergs will join us at SIIF 2025! He will present his keynote speech on November 6 at 9:00 CET +1. You can still register for Sofia Information Integrity Forum on SIIF.info.

Prof. Lewandowsky is coming to SIIF 2025! His talk in the opening day, November 5, at 10:00 am, will explore how the design of our online information systems collides with the way human cognition works. In that friction, trust, democracy, and even our shared sense of reality are being tested.

The new rules under the Digital Services Act will allow researchers to gain unprecedented access to very large online platforms' data to study the societal impact stemming from the platforms' systems. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/new-...

GATE Institute's i-Government unit leader Keith Peter Kiely, PhD, participated in the Dubrovnik Media Days 2025 where he shared important findings about 1st and 2nd order voting and the 2024 EP Elections, and how AI technologies can be applied responsibly. www.linkedin.com/posts/dmd-in...

The European Federation of Journalists issued an official statement as well, condemning this „disproportionate restriction on journalists’ right to cover private matters that are in the public interest“. brodhub.eu/en/news/a-pa...

Regulation (EU) 2024/900 on the transparency and targeting of political advertising came into force, introducing strict new transparency and funding rules for political advertising across the EU. In response, Meta and Google restricted those type of ads on their platforms brodhub.eu/en/news/the-...

Researchers from the Intelligent Government (iGov) team and Data Spaces Team at the GATE Institute presented its work at the 2025 European Linguistic Data Space Workshop. The Institute's Director Prof. Sylvia Ilieva chaired the panel Language Data Production and Management: Overcoming Obstacles.

SIIF 2025 is bringing experts, researchers, and tech innovators from across Europe for a three-day conference at GATE Institute focused on: ➡ Policies & resilience against FIMI ➡ Tech & AI solutions for countering disinformation ➡ Media literacy & education ➡ Research & strategic communications

The findings in the recently published report on the identity narratives and polarisation in Bulgaria by the Center for the Study of Democracy lead to several recommendations, including the full implementation of the #DSA. Read the whole report here: csd.eu/publications...

The pursuit of #InformationIntegrity is unattainable without free media and public participation. Developed by the @ecpmf.bsky.social and CASE, the European Anti-SLAPP Monitor follows national implementation of the EU Anti-SLAPP Directive and the Council of Europe Recommendation CM/Rec(2024)2.

On the night of Sept. 9-10, Russian drones entered Polish airspace. Posts claim that a house in the eastern part of the country 🇵🇱 was damaged during a storm, when in fact it was hit on the night of Sept. 9, as verified by @factcheck.afp.com's fact-check for BROD. brodhub.eu/bg/medii/afp...

The part 2: 'Public health 101 for disinformation experts' of @edmo-eu.bsky.social's training series on health aims to provide guidance both for stratcom and disinformation investigators when working on health topics and for public health professionals when working on disinformation.

271,200 euros were spent on advertising on Meta and Google platforms by all political parties in 🇧🇬 Bulgaria, with one party accounting for 70% of the total amount. 👉 Read the new European Digital Media Observatory's cross-country analysis of political advertising during the 2024 🇪🇺 EU elections

The publication examines the digital information environment surrounding anti-euro protests in Bulgaria on September 13, utilizing real-time social media data collection, search analytics, Google platform monitoring, and contemporaneous source supplementation. brodhub.eu/en/research/...

The @edmo-eu.bsky.social's monthly fact-checking brief is out 👇. The most targeted topic by #disinformation in the month of August has been climate change. False news related to the war in Ukraine, the crisis in Gaza and the European Union have also increased.

Тhe E-Europe Master's program at the SU's European Studies Department and Digital Republic are co-organizing a 📣 public lecture this Friday, September 19, by the policy expert Petar Galev on the current state of implementation of the EU's pioneering platforms governance law #DSA. fb.me/e/aBsvWBfvQ

The first bulletin on the 🇲🇩 Moldova’s parliamentary elections analyzes AI-generated content, coordinated bot activity and disinformation narratives undermining electoral integrity. You can now read it on the BROD's website: brodhub.eu/en/republic-...

Despite becoming an official code of conduct of the DSA, VLOPs still do not comply fully with relevant commitments, the evaluation of the platforms’ compliance with the Code of Practice chapter on fact-checking just released by EFCSN's shows. efcsn.com/report-the-m...

BNT with a new documentary under BROD @edmo-eu.bsky.social brodhub.eu/en/news/the-...

Electoral Disinformation Ecosystems in Romania and its Diaspora brodhub.eu/en/research/...

🗳️🇷🇴 Ahead of this week's 2nd round of #Romania's historic presidential #election, we asked our experts at @brodhub.bsky.social, Elena Calistru and Keith Kiely, six questions about the role of #disinformation around this crucial vote. 🎥 Watch the interview: youtu.be/Lf1bNqAnTtc

As the election in #Romania is just two days away, watch @madalinaresearch.bsky.social @brodhub.bsky.social in conversation with @maredgwyn.bsky.social @euronews.com ⤵️ www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jk74a

🇷🇴🗳️ #TikTok #algorithms still boost emotive and polarising messages, with #Georgescu and #Simion benefitting "from a disproportionate visibility," says @madalinaresearch.bsky.social, Coordinator of @brodhub.bsky.social. 🗞️ Full text: u.afp.com/STWW 👉 More on #Romania #elections: loom.ly/n3p0rII

Marking the "culmination of months of political uncertainty", yesterday's first round of the #Romanian presidential #election saw several notable incidents, as @brodhub.bsky.social partner Funky Citizens shows in their latest analysis: edmo.eu/edmo-news/ro...

Romania on election day – 4 May 2025 #EDMO brodhub.eu/en/romanian-...

Code of Practice on Disinformation in Romania: A Synthesis of SNSPA Research #EDMO brodhub.eu/en/research/...

Distorted Realities: Exposing Malign Influence in Bulgarian Online Discourse. Country Report #EDMO #CSD brodhub.eu/en/research/...

The relationship with information and media consumption habits of children and young people in Romania #EDMO #CIJ brodhub.eu/en/research/...

Live: Special committee on the European Democracy Shield Ordinary meeting multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...

Tragedy! brodhub.eu/en/news/bulg...