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WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: One longstanding pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative which continues Pro-Kremlin media outlets have conducted numerous so-called ‘investigations’ into the alleged organ trafficking complexity and time-constrained nature of organ transplant procedures have been explained at length by medical teams of up to ten surgeons, access to a sterile operating environment and a thorough medical examination public-health-fakes-ukrainian-military-man-witnessed-the-work-of-black-transplant-specialists-at-the-front-issue-33 [7] https://mythdetector.ge/en/recurring-disinformation-by-pro-kremlin-media-about-organ-trading-in-ukraine

available content interactions paired with the number of individual pieces of content (newspaper articles, social media posts, blog posts or videos) for each week and for each country. as they do not take into consideration the interactions when the original content is shared across social media, nor the potential view count of each piece of content, they represent a very conservative estimation on social media –such as one Polish TikTok video on August 10, representing about two-thirds of the

For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Estonian media LATVIA Overview: This week, we identified only a handful of stories in the Latvian-language segment of social media. For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Latvian media For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Lithuanian media

Soon after, the pro-Kremlin media started to claim that the president’s speech clearly divides the country Pro-Kremlin media regularly finds topics in Estonian local events that they can use to present Estonia Unfortunately, the pro-Kremlin media portrayed it as president’s attempt to divide the country into two Pro-Kremlin media outlets baltnews.ee, baltija.eu and an Estonian non-systematic media portal sputnik-meedia.ee and an Estonian non-systematic media portal sputnik-meedia.eewere the top three media sources responsible

This week, Estonia’s media saw the emergence of numerous new pro-Kremlin narratives. In the pro-Kremlin segment of social media, individual articles were detected promoting the narratives LATVIA Overview: This week, the topic of the energy crisis was the primary focus of pro-Kremlin social media discourse in Latvia. For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Latvian media

Their rhetoric, intensively promoted on social media by the actors themselves as well as numerous amplifiers This video was swiftly debunked, but it still received notable traction across social media, especially The content was shared by potentially suspicious media outlets and their social media channels, as well Comment sections The majority of problematic content is produced by social media users. Unlike the media and the social media-generated content, which needs to align with Facebook’s policies

Throughout May-December of 2020 Debunk ran a media literacy project in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia with a goal to increase the resilience amongst the citizens of the Baltic countries through a gamified media BadNews game developed by DROG with Cambridge University was chosen as a possible solution to address the media spread by Kremlin-related media, we have decided to adapt the game in the region and by doing so meet the media literacy needs.

The October 10th missile attacks across Ukraine were a key feature of disinformation in Latvia and Lithuania For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Estonian media For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Latvian media For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Lithuanian media MOST (North Macedonia), Fakenews.pl (Poland), Slovak Security Policy Institute (Slovakia), Detector Media

For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Estonian media For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Latvian media A range of conspiracies continue to circulate in Lithuania’s disinformation media environment, including i) biolabs and other Western experiments in Ukraine; ii) Zelensky being a drug addict iii) Western media For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Lithuanian media

Throughout December, various Russian media outlets were accusing Lithuania of being unreasonable and towards the BelNPP, the position of Lithuania and actions receive a special attention by the Russian media Debunk EU team has examined 406 articles (December 2020) in the Russian media, 148 of which contained In response, the pro-Kremlin media provided their own assessment of the Government of Lithuania plans However, the overall reach increased due to a few articles published by the large media channels such

and refugees, claiming that governments, politicians and the media were prioritising Ukrainians at the For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Estonian media For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Latvian media in the Lithuanian government and mainstream media, as well as discrediting Ukraine and its leadership The narratives remain the same: media all lie; the government uses the war in Ukraine to establish a

In the beginning of September, hostile media sought to deflect the attention by comparing living conditions outlets of the origin countries of migrants. 323 articles in 61 regional hostile media sources. The share of disinformation was the lowest within the content published by media outlets in the countries role as a soft power tool in promoting Kremlin-backed narratives and targeting youth via the means of social media.

For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Estonian media The attack on the Kerch bridge did not become a source of disinformation. For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Latvian media For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Lithuanian media MOST (North Macedonia), Fakenews.pl (Poland), Slovak Security Policy Institute (Slovakia), Detector Media

For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Estonian media LATVIA Overview: This week, we observed only a handful of articles in Latvian-language media that contained For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Latvian media For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Lithuanian media MOST (North Macedonia), Fakenews.pl (Poland), Slovak Security Policy Institute (Slovakia), Detector Media

Bucha’s mayor, Russian media told the world, did not mention corpses laying on the streets when speaking And again, on March 28, 2022, the local mayor spoke again to international media describing Russian crimes outlet, they both flew below the radar of most global media. away from the crimes themselves, and onto an alleged persecution (against Russia, by international media ideologically well-crafted, its power went only as far as the ideological project behind it (Soviet socialism

Meanwhile, disinformation actors continued their prolific targeting of Ukrainian refugees in a bid to For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Estonian media For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Latvian media For comparison, the most interacted with individual Ukraine-related article across all Lithuanian media MOST (North Macedonia), Fakenews.pl (Poland), Slovak Security Policy Institute (Slovakia), Detector Media

agencies, compounded by restrictions on access to international media and selected social media channels Spanish-language profile on Facebook has 16 million followers, although its audience is smaller on other social Also social media channels like Facebook, Instagram or Twitter were blocked, among others, for “discrimination James, Britain sanctions Russian media, targeting disinformation, March 31, 2022, https://reut.rs/3JYUUBv Kahn, Despite Western bans, Putin’s propaganda flourishes in Spanish on TV and social media, Reuters

indicate that in addition to the goal of protecting the BelNPP from negative information, pro-Kremlin media ‘Before, pro-Kremlin media interated that Lithuania, no matter how hard it tried, would still be forced the EP resolution, the visit of ENSEREG experts to the BelNPP was widely publicised in pro-Kremlin media The analysis has shown that in February, pro-Kremlin media sought to emphasise that the intentions of It is important that in February pro-Kremlin media continued with the hitherto popular narratives, which

In addition to questioning the validity of the Baltic membership in NATO, pro-Kremlin media also spread In March 2021, Debunk EU detected 9612 articles related to NATO, which were posted by hostile media sources (riafan.ru, 29/03/2021) Our verdict: Statements of Baltic countries allegedly turning into socially and with the alleged militarization as the primary causes of an invented situation, in this case – the social Therefore, claims that membership in the Alliance has caused social and economic poverty in the Baltic

BEHAVIOUR The campaign is based on Meta’s social media platforms (Facebook and Instagram) to disseminate   part of the AI-CODE project , aiming to help investigators analyse, categorise, and test versatile media The fictitious association with legitimate news outlets grant an illusion that mainstream media and political , social division, and geopolitical destabilization, making it a pressing national security concern for Public awareness, media scrutiny, and proactive cybersecurity measures are our strongest defences against