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North Macedonia’s potential avenues for building a national FIMI response system

08.12.25

An integrated national response mechanism for FIMI is not a luxury, but a prerequisite for protecting elections, public discourse, and trust in institutions at a time when information threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated. The question is not whether we will...

Freedom, Fake News, and Foreign Influence

10.10.25

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

Transactional Truth: How Serbia’s Regime-Controlled Media Become Channels for Foreign and Domestic Manipulation

24.07.25

Serbia is not merely a passive victim of foreign FIMI, it is an active facilitator. By using foreign narratives as instruments of internal control, the regime transforms its media ecosystem into a hybrid platform for...

Propaganda for motherhood: Russia’s ban on childfree people as a tool of cultural control

11.07.25

In 2024, the Russian Federation passed legislation prohibiting the “promotion of a childfree lifestyle.” Behind the vaguely worded ban lies more than demographic concerns—it is about cultural control, ideology, and silencing freedom of...

New elections in Romania: Coordinated online campaigns once again

27.06.25

Иако поништени минатата година заради странско мешање, повторените претседателски избори во Романија сè уште се во сенка на загриженоста за...

Recognizing manipulative narratives – Two perspectives on disinformation in Europe

20.06.25

In this cross-interview, Timo Lenk and Martin Lestra discuss how disinformation is spread, what risks it poses, and how their respective projects contribute to exposing and combating manipulative...

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...

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