Media

How Moscow and Beijing Enter the News in Bosnia and Herzegovina

31.03.26

From RT and Sputnik to Xinhua and local newsrooms, foreign narratives are increasingly becoming part of the domestic media reality in Bosnia and...

FIMI is a risk to be managed, not a statement to be refuted.

06.03.26

Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) doesn't defeat you with one lie. It defeats you with a habit. The habit of doubting...

When everyone posts the same thing: A signal of Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference

04.03.26

FIMI usually does not rely on a single lie, but on a combination of the posting frequency and timing, the emotion in the content, repetition and masking of the source....

Freedom, Fake News, and Foreign Influence

10.10.25

Albania’s media landscape is under more scrutiny than ever...

Media Between Control, Profit, and Manipulation: The Case of N1, Nova S, and Public Perception in Serbia

22.09.25

N1 and Nova S, among the few broadcasters consistently exposing corruption, now face uncertainty while the government consolidates control over...

Europe’s blueprint shows how to push back against foreign information manipulation

02.06.25

  Content that is harmful but legal needs to be tackled with the freedom of expression in mind. The EU approach provides an overall framework, which needs to be adopted to the specific country setting. Around the time when Donald Trump was first running for...

Social media: problematic platforms, problematic users

30.04.25

Social media is playing a major role in the run-up to the German parliamentary elections. Its influence is feared. But studies show that user behavior is often problematic as well. This has implications for...

Media literacy: Upskilled citizens or down-skilled government?

28.04.25

Media literacy must transcend its current consumer-focused framework and embrace its potential as a cornerstone of civic empowerment....

What Girls are Good for – the women who revolutionized undercover journalism

23.04.25

Pennsylvania, shortly before the turn of the century: The newspaper Pittsburgh Dispatch publishes the article “What Girls are Good for”. According to the article, not for much, mainly for the household and having children. Shortly afterwards, the editorial team...

A Dream Deferred: The rise of anti-EU narratives in the Albanian media landscape

19.08.24

The benefits of being a candidate country are not clear, or at least they are not quite trickling down to the Albanian population at large. This leaves a gap, a gap easily filled by conspiracy theorists who are more than ready to use their platforms to undermine the...
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