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NATO drills, COVID-19 rules, alleged interference in Belarus used to target the Baltics and Poland

While the second wave of COVID-19 is raging, the pandemic still is at the core of false/misleading information targeting Lithuania,...

Negative posts on Facebook sought to discredit democratic processes in Lithuania

With the new government starting their term, Lithuanian parliamentary election of 2020 is still in the spotlight. Political campaigns...

"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...

Breaches in regulation for political ads on social media pose a risk on electoral transparency

Political advertising on social media has given political parties and candidates more possibilities for reaching their constituents....

With a dramatic surge of COVID-19 cases, Baltic states may be facing the second wave of infodemic

With a rapidly increasing number of COVID-19 cases, healthcare systems, businesses, the general public are nothing less but exhausted —...

Negative communication creates an impression of no real political choice in Lithuanian elections

While a notorious contest for voter ‘s attention was raging in the public space, there were repeated attempts in digital media to...

Political unrest in Belarus keeps fuelling disinformation against Baltic states

As the protests in Belarus continue for the third month, political turmoil in the country still influences coverage about neighbouring...

Election fraud in Belarus brought a surge of pro-Kremlin propaganda

The events in Belarus, where people are protesting after the implicit falsification of the results of presidential election, were topical...

Kremlin tries to rewrite history over Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

As Europe celebrated the anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on August 23, the Debunk EU researchers examined how it was covered...

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...

Latvia had the widest spread of COVID-19 related disinformation in May

The Debunk EU analysis of COVID-19 related disinformation in three Baltic countries in May revealed that more than a half of this kind of...

US organisation expands its cooperation with Lithuanians in the fight against Chinese disinformation

The Alliance for Securing Democracy, an independent organisation operating in the United States, just a few weeks earlier has launched a...

Disinformers take an advantage of COVID-19 crisis

“Pharmaceutical industry denies the fact that vitamin C kills coronavirus”, “Lithuania has chosen natural selection – only the strongest...