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COVID-19 Sceptics Turn to Pro-Kremlin Propaganda About the Russia-Ukraine War

Even though feelings of urgency about the COVID-19 pandemic have decreased in recent months, misleading and false claims about the virus...

Analysis of LGBTIQ narratives in Montenegrin media

Although homosexuality remains a sensitive issue in conservative societies, as it does elsewhere in the Balkans, media reporting on...

False narratives about Covid-19 portray vaccines as ineffective, useless, or developed too fast

In September 2021, false narratives about the vaccines were at the heart of the Covid-19 disinformation distributed by online media in...

When you can't trust your eyes – Civic Resilience Course teaches to recognize false information

“I’ll just watch one more and go to bed” is probably a common thought of somebody who is about to fall in into a YouTube rabbit hole of...

Analysis of foreign influence and cyber incidents during the Latvian municipal elections 2021

In the beginning of June, regular municipal elections were held in Latvia. Even though the municipality of Riga did not hold the...

"Irrelevant and insignificant": depiction of the Baltics in pro-Kremlin media

With the focus slowly moving away from the political upheaval in Belarus, the ever-present narrative of Russophobia is regaining its...

70% of the information about the NATO exercise Defender 2020 was misleading

NATO’s Defender Europe 2020 exercise, scheduled for May in Eastern Europe, was set to become the Alliance’s largest exercise on the...