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Digital tools targeting youth disinformation narratives The project’s main aim is the development of innovative digital tools for educating young people on media literacy. We are doing this by curating an interdisciplinary approach focused on the design of immersive technology and interactive experiences, drawing on collaboration between organisations in the audiovisual / immersive technology, media, ···
In the special broadcast of Moldova alege!, the focus is on the upcoming presidential elections and the constitutional referendum that will decide Moldova’s future. The program features expert discussions about Moldova’s pivotal moment as citizens will choose their president and vote on whether to amend the Constitution to enshrine Moldova’s path to European Union membership. The ···
Moldova’s Political Crossroads: A Discussion on the Stakes of the 2024 Presidential Elections and EU Referendum In this edition of Secretele Puterii, Alex Cozer welcomes prominent experts Sorin Ioniță, president of Expert Forum, Vlad Kulminski, executive director of IPIS, and Valeriu Pașa, president of the WatchDog.MD community. As Moldova approaches the decisive date of ···
In the face of growing strategic threats and disinformation campaigns, Expert Forum, in partnership with WatchDog.MD, has been at the forefront of efforts to protect Moldova’s democratic processes. With the constitutional referendum and presidential election set for 20 October 2024, Moldova stands at a crucial crossroads. The referendum will determine whether the nation amends ···
Manipulating Romanians in favor of the Kremlin’s agenda is not easy, with Romanians being skeptical of the intentions of the Eastern neighbor based on their historical relations. Our experiences between East and West meant replacing oppression by the Turks with the goodwill of the defender of Orthodoxy who used Romanians in battles, causing horrors in ···
Sorin Ioniţă speaks in the international conference The Impact of Foreign Informational Interferences on democratic processes/elections, organized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs for their own staff in the main hall of the Government. The topic of his presentation, based on EFOR’s monitoring and research of the last years, was How effective are the Kremlin ···
The EU Digital Services Act (DSA) came into force in February 2024, marking a significant shift in the regulation of digital services across the European Union. In Romania, the implementation law was officially published in the Official Journal on March 19, 2024, signaling the beginning of a complex process of regulatory adaptation. The National Authority ···
Conversation with Dr. Anton Shekhovtsov, Ukrainian disinformation expert at the Romanian Diplomatic Institute 15th of March 2024 Expert Forum (EFOR) and Romanian Diplomatic Institute (IDR) organized a public debate featuring Dr. Anton Shekhovtsov, an internationally-renowned author of solid research on European radical politics and its ties to Russia. After ten years of war in Ukraine ···
EFOR has launched two analysis reports, which illustrate how money was spent on political and electoral advertising between 2019 and 2023, via Facebook and Google, as well as what were the main themes circulated by political parties and politicians in the last year. Read the report on political topics Online Politics – January November 2023 See ···
EFOR has released two analysis reports, which illustrate how money was spent on political and electoral advertising between 2019 and 2023, via Facebook and Google, as well as what were the main themes circulated by political parties and politicians in the last year. At the same time, we also launched a section dedicated to this ···