Disinformation

MONITORING OF FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM

14.02.2020 In recent years, the manner of how people receive political messages has changed profoundly also in relation to the growing impact of social media. These changes also brought with them some negative phenomena, such as a substantial increase in unverified,...

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...

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

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...

POLITICS IN THE DIGITAL AGE

07.04.2019 MEMO 98 expert Rasto Kuzel was one of the speakers at the Danube University Krems which, along with the Tallinn University of Technology, Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, hosted the Eastern Partnership eDemocracy Conference on &lsquo...

TRAINING ON SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING IN GEORGIA

18.12.2018 Our expert has worked as a media consultant in the framework of a project entitled “Study and Research on Election Media Coverage for 2018 Presidential Election in Georgia”, implemented by United Nations Development Programme Georgia ...