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Between April and December 2025, Debunk submitted 1,468 reports to Meta under its Trusted Flagger status. These reports led to the removal of 26,255 Facebook pages and approximately 5.9 million advertisements. The removed content was primarily associated with fraudulent e-commerce and investment schemes, illegal online gambling operations, and the sale of prohibited medical products. Based on publicly available data from Meta’s Ad Library, 5.9 million advertisements generated

In about a year, over 50 million Europeans on Facebook and Instagram have been exposed to ads falsely claiming that fraud victims are being refunded. In reality, these ads direct users to fake portals designed to capture personal data and extract upfront “fees” under the pretext of refund processing. A large network of Facebook and Instagram advertisements impersonated Interpol, Europol, national “cyber police,” EU institutions, and other official bodies. The ads claimed they

The "Sprinter" network on X (formerly Twitter) is a complex web of fake accounts that spread pro-Kremlin disinformation. Our investigation reveals that these accounts, automated and inauthentic, coordinate efforts to amplify harmful political narratives. By uncovering links to a Belarusian state operative-controlled Telegram channel, we trace the operations of the Sprinter network to actors linked to government-sponsored disinformation. This report examines how these networks

In Lithuania, online scammers are creating copies of major news portals, fake Facebook accounts and inviting people to invest in fake...

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, social activists, opinion leaders, journalists and ordinary civic-minded people have noticed a...

An analysis of the Facebook page ‘Russkaya Litva’ (Russian Lithuania), showed an entire network of interconnected accounts has been...

Around the world, disinformation-spreading websites receive a large portion of their income by showing advertisements. The ads of...

A screengrab of a woman appearing on the main news programme of Russian state-run Channel One with a poster saying "No war" had overflown...

In a matter of weeks after sanctions were imposed on the transit of goods to Kaliningrad, Facebook posts published by Lithuanian...

In democratic countries, media is referred to as “the fourth estate”. However, this term does not apply to Russia, where the media is...

Communication analysis of ZAPAD 2021 indicated a presence of a number of complex information influence operations that were employed by...

The conspiracy theory about Ukrainian army developing bioweapons and aspiring to acquire a 'dirty bomb' became a culprit of the Kremlin...

In its alternative universe, where the invasion to Ukraine is not actually an act of war but a 'special military operation', the Kremlin...

In view of the increasingly discussed problem of Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour (CIB) and the widespread activity of bots on social...

In the weeks leading up to the invasion to Ukraine, Kremlin propaganda apparatus went out its way to convince domestic audiences that...

Celebration of May 9th, or the Victory Day, has been an important date in Soviet Union, but in the past decades it became a...

Throughout the year of 2021, a widespread network of Kremlin-affiliated media was utilised to cover up multiple accidents and divert any...

The film was created by the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO, who came to Lithuania for the first time two years ago, and now, with the war...

Comprehensive analysis of the networks of profiles, pages, and groups on social media has shown that Facebook pages and groups, which...

The strongest opponents of intention to organize the census in Montenegro last year were representatives of the opposition (declaring...