Tag: disinformation

THREE FINDINGS FROM THREE COUNTRIES

09.03.2021 We monitored social media platforms to determine their impact on the recent elections in Belarus, Moldova and Kyrgyzstan. Check interviews with three experts to learn what were the three main findings in each country.

KYRGYZ Presidential Election in Social Media [final]

09.02.2021 Between 19 November 2020 and 9 January 2021, Media Development Center, a Kyrgyz media organization, and MEMO 98, a Slovak non-profit specialist media-monitoring organization, monitored social media in the run-up to the 10 January early presidential election...

THE MANY FACES FIGHTING DISINFORMATION

25.01.2021 MEMO 98 is featured in the publication titled “The Many Faces Fighting Disinformation: Safeguarding Civil Society’s Role in the Response to Information Disorders" as an organization monitoring elections in the digital age.

Kyrgyz election 2021 in social media [prelim]

11.01.2021 While not winning on social media, Japarov takes the presidency Bishkek, Bratislava, 11 January 2021 Monitoring of the Kyrgyz snap presidential election showed that Sadyr Japarov was outcompeted by other candidates on social media but that did not stop him...

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN SOCIAL MEDIA - GEORGIA 2020

05.01.2021 Bidzina Ivanishvili most active on Facebook but Mikheil Saakashvili more popular. From among parties, UNM more active than the Georgian Dream. European Georgia spent more money on FB ads than any other party.

MOLDOVAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN SOCIAL MEDIA

30.10.2020 Moldovan election: Incumbent Dodon way behind Usatîi and Sandu in social media campaign Moldova’s incumbent President Igor Dodon is losing out on social media to his ideological rival Renato Usatîi and the pro-European candidate Maia...

HOW TO MAINTAIN INTEGRITY OF ELECTIONS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

09.09.2020 As the world faces its worse pandemic in over a century, there is little doubt where the virus originated and how it spread to the rest of the world. Nevertheless, it has become the subject of a massive propaganda and disinformation campaign,...

DEZINFORMÁCIE POČAS VOLIEB OHROZUJÚ ICH INTEGRITU, ALE POČAS PANDÉMIE NÁM IDE O ŽIVOT

01.07.2020 Sociálne médiá pomáhajú tlačiť problematické naratívy do verejného priestoru

THE MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE 2020 SLOVAK PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

05.05.2020 The main purpose of the monitoring was to determine if voters had ample information to make qualified choices at the ballot box and whether this information was sufficiently diverse, balanced, and of adequate quality. Since we wanted to have the most prec

COVID-19-RELATED DISINFORMATION ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AND WAYS TO TACKLE IT

30.04.2020 MEMO 98 and the Slovak media regulator organized a webinar on 14 April at the participation of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Access Now, members of ERGA, representatives of the European Commission, experts on disinformation, journalists, academia, interested