Media

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...

How deepfakes can trigger political uncertainty

17.04.24

When a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Turkey and Syria on February 6, 2022 Greek government sent rescue teams on the ground and ordinary people collected medicine, clothes, bedding, food, and other essentials for humanitarian...

Artificial intelligence – in between information and disinformation

12.04.24

The spread of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in recent years has revolutionized various industries, including media outlets in the creation and dissemination of...

The LGBTI community “torn” between hate speech and freedom of expression

03.04.24

The attempts to prevent hate speech in the media outlets and in the social media are not showing results so...

Without proper oversight, AI technologies can become a threat

29.03.24

At the end of last year, the then director of the Podgorica Health Center, Danilo Jokić, was the target of fraudsters on Facebook, who, with the help of...

A loud SLAPP for Greek journalists

16.02.24

Greek journalists and media reporting on the wiretapping scandal testified in a court hearing on January...
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