When the European Commission unveiled its European Democracy Shield in the autumn of 2025, the initiative was framed as a long-overdue response to one of the most destabilising forces facing European democracies: disinformation and foreign information manipulation. The package promises…

Misleading information and disinformation circulating in the Czech environment overstate military aid to Ukraine or humanitarian assistance to Ukrainian refugees. Almost half of Czechs believe some of these claims. For example, a Facebook post circulated this year that exaggerates Czech…

Tune in to our podcast! Every month, senior editors from EastFlank newsrooms meet to discuss topics that matter for the region and the EU. In this episode we talk about the fight against disinformation. How countries on the Eastern Flank…

Last summer, a piece of fake news circulated claiming that water from the Vidraru Dam had been sold to the French. The fake news was revived in December, during President Nicușor Dan’s visit to France. On social media, a photo…

Businessman Valtis Dalbinis published a claim in November that young people had bragged to a teacher he knew that they had received €300 for taking part in a picket in support of the Istanbul Convention. It received widespread attention among…

Discussions on social media do not always reflect the real opinion of society. They are increasingly becoming a field of coordinated activity for ‘bots’ and ‘trolls’, where artificial tension is created, fear is spread, trust in institutions is undermined, discord…

When the United States topples the leader of another sovereign nation and frames it as a show of strength and a point of pride, the world takes notice. If America openly disregards international rules it helped to create, why should…

A week before Christmas, media outlets picked up a warning from German CDU MP Roderich Kiesewetter. In an interview with Germany’s N-TV, he claimed that Russia was “training hundreds of thousands of soldiers who will not be deployed to Ukraine”. According to him, they are stationed in the territory of collaborating Belarus and are prepared to attack NATO in the future. He estimated the number of such troops at between 350,000 and 360,000.

Russian propaganda claims that the European Union is deliberately blocking peace negotiations on Ukraine and prolonging the war. Czech expert, however, warns that this is a purposeful disinformation narrative – according to him, the real actor blocking peace is Russia.…