Media monitoring
The South African government’s passing of the 2024 Expropriation Act was received with mixed reactions, including criticism from global figures. But is this legislation the land confiscation tool that detractors make it out to be?
Sibongile Ndlovu | 4 min read | Apr 7, 2025
Disinformation and online information manipulation have become one of the most pressing challenges for democratic societies worldwide. They increasingly shape public discourse on every topic, and in turn destabilize societies, undermine democratic institutions, exploiting regional vulnerabilities.
Hive Mind | 5 min read | Apr 4, 2025
Digital polarization is one of the main challenges in combating online disinformation. This phenomenon, characterized by the division of society into opposing poles that rarely dialogue, turns social networks into arenas of conflict, where the spread of fake news finds fertile ground. Understanding and combating the mechanisms that intensify this polarization is essential to promoting a healthier and more informative digital environment.
Vitor Matheus | 5 min read | Jan 27, 2025
As Meta announces end to U.S. fact-checking, program partners warn of a setback for accuracy online and potential global consequences.
Sibongile Ndlovu | 7 min read | Jan 24, 2025
What can we learn about our organization using social media monitoring tools?
Political Capital | 14 min read | Oct 2, 2024
The message that the EU is useless for Moldova has been perpetuated for ten years, in all electoral periods: be it the general local, parliamentary or presidential elections, after Chișinău signed the Association Agreement between the Republic of Moldova and the European Union. This autumn, when Moldovans choose their future country president, they will also decide the future of their country’s alliances: with the East or with the West.
Lilia Cravcenco-Zaharia | 5 min read | Jul 30, 2024
In a small-scale project – media literacy training seminar “From Consumer to Creator” – 30 Municipal Youth Councils’ representatives* from five different municipalities in Latvia gathered to reflect on their media consumption habits, explore their own cognitive bias, learn about social media algorithms, and exchange their practices creating collaboration ideas for the future.
Sintija Lase | 8 min read | Jul 3, 2024
Discussing anti-Western narratives is a hot topical issue nowadays, but not a new one - just as propaganda is not an expression of our times, but has a long history behind it. I will not talk about the general course of anti-Western propaganda in Eastern Europe and especially in Romania, but about my personal experience with this field and the sometimes arduous process of countering it with honest and transparent means.
Laura Burtan | 9 min read | Nov 14, 2023