Tag: MEMO 98

MONITORING SOCIÁLNYCH MÉDIÍ - PARLAMENTNÉ VOĽBY 2020

31.01.2020 V súvislosti s rastúcim vplyvom sociálnych médií sa za posledné roky zmenil aj spôsob, ako ľudia prijímajú politické informácie. Tieto zmeny so sebou priniesli aj negat...

MONITORING FACEBOOK DURING THE POLISH ELECTIONS 2019

01.01.2020 Between 1 September and 11 October 2019, Political Accountability Foundation (FOP), in cooperation with MEMO 98, monitored 74 public Facebook accounts of political parties, election coalitions, politicians, media and other influential actors involved in the...

50-TKA ZNAMENÁ CENZÚRU

31.10.2019 Bratislava,  31. október 2019 -  MEMO 98 reaguje na schválenie novely volebného zákona, konkrétne §17 (volebné prieskumy), na základe ktorej sa mení dĺžka moratória na...

MONITORING SOCIAL MEDIA DURING ELECTIONS

26.10.2019 Too often we heard about problems in social media discourse during elections when it was too late. Democracy Reporting International, in cooperation with MEMO 98, has been implementing a Civitates-funded project which seeks to significantly step up a...

COMPACT SYMPOSIUM: DISINFO IN EU ELECTIONS & THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY TRENDS

24.10.2019 The symposium brought together policymakers, academics, NGOs and other stakeholders to discuss how to make social media and our democratic discourses more resilient to extremism and disinformation, especially in light of elections. The aim of the COMPACT project is to raise awareness about emerging legal, policy and technological developments and increase the understanding of how the convergence of those trends influences media and society.

MONITORING UKRAINIAN MEDIA DURING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2019

14.10.2019 In the framework of the Council of Europe project “Supporting the transparency, inclusiveness and integrity of electoral practice in Ukraine” and in cooperation with the Council of Europe project “Strengthening Freedom of Media, Access to Information and Reinforcing Public Broadcasting System in Ukraine”, our expert Rasťo Kužel was hired to design the methodology of traditional and social media monitoring during both Ukrainian elections in 2019 and to oversee the implementation of the monitoring during the 31 March and 21 April presidential election. The project was implemented within the framework of the Council of Europe Action Plan for Ukraine 2018 – 2021

SOCIAL MEDIA, DISINFORMATION AND ELECTORAL INTEGRITY

28.09.2019 The appearance of various types of disinformation and their threat to the integrity of elections have become gradually an issue of global concern. There is a need to have a better definition of problems and terms, and a deeper understanding of the challenge...

SOCIAL MEDIA IN UPCOMING ELECTIONS IN EUROPE: HOW TO MONITOR THEM

28.09.2019 MEMO 98, in cooperation with Democracy Reporting International (DRI), organized a workshop “Social media in upcoming elections in Europe: How to monitor them?” which was held on 19 – 20 September 2019 in Bratislava, Slovakia. The...

SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING AND ELECTION OBSERVATION - NIGERIA 2019

04.08.2019 Niger Delta Watch 2019 was a citizen-led election observation project reporting on the 2019 Nigerian presidential and governorship elections. The project focused on the states of Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, and Akwa Ibom. Niger Delta Watch 2019 was a joint...