EU DisinfoLab

'Your report is important to us': unnecessary barriers to submit content reports

Analyzes how platform content-reporting mechanisms impose unnecessary barriers under the DSA.

Regulatory challenges & gaps in addressing systemic platform abuse

Election-integrity/FIMI monitoring across four countries reveals regulatory gaps in addressing systemic platform abuse.

Malicious semi-compliance as the platform approach to EU regulation

Argues big tech feigns compliance with the DSA while sidestepping its intent through 'malicious semi-compliance.'

Mapping algorithmic amplification: transparency challenges and lessons from Germany

Examines transparency challenges in studying algorithmic amplification, drawing lessons from the German context.

Platforms' policies on climate change misinformation (V2)

Updated tracking of how major platforms handle climate disinformation under the DSA, documenting policy rollbacks and weakening.

Doppelganger media impersonation: leveraging domain name dispute resolution

Explores using domain-name dispute resolution as a countermeasure against the Doppelganger media-impersonation operation.

Yet more evidence of Russia's boundless impunity to spread misinformation in the EU

Further documentation of the Doppelganger influence operation's continued reach across social platforms in the EU.

Platforms' AI policy updates in 2024: labelling as the silver bullet?

Reviews platforms' 2024 updates to AI-content policies, arguing reliance on 'labelling' AI content is an insufficient response.

Assessing cost-effectiveness: responses to the Doppelganger operation

Assesses responses to the Russian Doppelganger operation that clones media outlets and spreads links/ads across X, Facebook and Telegram.

Disinformation on YouTube: research and content moderation policies

Factsheet documenting how disinformation on YouTube is researched and how the platform's content-moderation policies operate.

Disinformation on TikTok: research and content moderation policies

Factsheet documenting how disinformation on TikTok is researched and how the platform's content-moderation policies operate.

Disinformation on X: research and content moderation policies

Factsheet documenting how disinformation on X is researched and how the platform's content-moderation policies operate.

Disinformation on Facebook: research and content moderation policies

Factsheet documenting how disinformation on Facebook is researched and how the platform's content-moderation policies operate.

Platforms' policies on AI-manipulated and generated misinformation

Maps how major platforms address AI-manipulated and AI-generated misinformation in their policies.

Platforms' policies on climate change misinformation (V1)

Maps how the five platforms address climate misinformation, revealing uneven and weak climate-specific rules.

Facebook Hustles: The Belgian spin-off

Deep-dive into a scam network of 1,500+ Facebook ads luring users to fake media sites impersonating Belgian outlets and politicians.

Platforms' policies on elections misinformation

Maps and compares how five major platforms address election misinformation in their policies.

Platforms' policies on health misinformation

Maps and compares how five major platforms address health misinformation in their policies.