Story of the month
November – Disinformation Monitoring Report
Key Insights: During the reporting month Latvian social-media actors primarily focused on domestic issues including the controversy surrounding ratification of the Istanbul Convention and the private airplane flights taken by Krišjānis Kariņš during his time as the prime minister . The main narratives for the reporting month are as follows: Overview of findings: Story of…
Weekly Reports
Lithuania Weekly: Government Distrust, Ethnic Divisions, and Freedom of Speech Concerns
Main keywords: Ukraine, benefit, education, incompetence Main disinformation narratives: Overview:During the reporting week, Lithuanian media was dominated by various topics, giving a clear and convenient basis for anti-government narratives to spread. Teachers’ protest taking place, was picturing Lithuania as a failed state by harshly criticising its education system; recently proposed comprehensive reform plan for the country’s Public Security…
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Lithuania Weekly: Undermined support for Ukraine, Upcoming Presidential elections and general Political Mistrust
New observations this week: 4 Main channel: Facebook Main keywords: government, Ukraine, support, scandals Main disinformation narratives: Overview:During this reporting period, Kremlin-aligned media emphasised the “failing education system” (due to the ongoing teachers’ protests) and commented on all the revealed candidacies for the upcoming presidential elections. Hostile media has also continued to undermine support for…
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Lithuania Weekly: Distrust in Officials and Confusion between Private and Public Interests
New observations this week: 6 Main channel: Facebook Main keywords: government, misuse, self-benefit, corruption, confusion of interests Main disinformation narratives: Overview: Analysis of specifically Kremlin-aligned media in Lithuania revealed that these outlets continued to promote the anti-government narrative. All most engaged stories from this type of media outlet carried negative sentiments targeting the government, trying…
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Lithuania Weekly: Bomb Threats, Hamas’ attacks, and New Real Estate Tax
New observations this week: 5 Main channel: Facebook Main keywords: Palestine, Israel, Hamas, bomb threats, attack, coordinated, inadequate, Ukraine, real estate, tax Main narratives: Overview: This week, all types of media in Lithuania were overwhelmed discussing alleged bomb threats in the country. In just a couple of days, the police in Lithuania had received more…
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Monthly Reports
Disinformation Monitoring Monthly Report | Latvia November 2023
Key Insights: During the reporting month Latvian social-media actors primarily focused on domestic issues including the potential resurgence of Covid-19 related restrictions, the introduction of lgbtq topics in the educational system and the Russian language. Additionally, a minor part of the content discussed issues relating to war in Ukraine. The main narratives for the reporting…
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Disinformation Monitoring Monthly Report
Key Insights: The Estonian social media and web-based media actors during the reporting month predominantly were focused on the Estonian/Russian language policy issues, human rights issues, democracy and trust towards elected officials, war in Ukraine as well as the international security situation in general. Accordingly, the main narratives that were spread over the social media…
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Disinformation Monitoring Monthly Report
Key Insights: The Estonian social media and web-based media actors during the reporting month predominantly were still focused on the Estonian/Russian language policy issues, human rights issues, democracy and trust towards elected officials, war in Ukraine, terrorist crisis in Israel as well as the international security situation in general. Accordingly, the main narratives that were…
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