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DFT Experts Involved in the E-MPACT Project for Democratic Education and Resilience to Disinformation

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Experts from the Digital Forensic Team, Nicolae Țîbrigan and Diana Moraru, contributed to the implementation of the international E-MPACT project—“Together for Participatory and Active Mobilization Against Disinformation”—an initiative dedicated to strengthening democratic education, media literacy, and critical thinking in Romania, the Republic of Moldova, and Montenegro. The project was implemented through a partnership between Freedom House Romania, the Center for […]

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How Vulnerable Are Conversational AI Systems to Russian and Chinese Propaganda?

ANALYSIS, OSINT Ukraine

"People learn from other people. People are a product of other people. I mean, it was. The latest generation of sapiens no longer even learns from other people. They learn from AI. Approximately 70% of their education and training takes place in front of a screen." — Cristian Tudor Popescu, “PYTHIA,” in Planetarium, Albatros Publishing House, Bucharest, 1987 […]

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Narratives, Algorithms, and Propaganda: How the Naval Drone Incident in Constanța Was Exploited in the Romanian and Russian Information Spheres

ANALYSIS, DISinfo RADAR

The incident on June 5, 2026, in which four Ukrainian naval drones entered Romanian territorial waters and self-destructed, sparked one of the most aggressive disinformation campaigns in recent months in the Romanian-language information space. Building on a real event and the public’s legitimate concerns regarding security in the Black Sea region

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9 Myths About May 9: How the Kremlin Turns the 1945 Victory Into a Propaganda Tool

ANALYSIS, DISinfo RADAR

Victory Day (celebrated in Europe on May 8), but marked with great pomp in Moscow on May 9, has come to represent for today’s Russian establishment not only a means of projecting an image, but also a factor in consolidating the regime, increasing its power on the international stage, and a tool in the hybrid war being waged

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Digital Sherlocks 2026 – Applications Open

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DFRLab announces the launch of a new edition of the international Digital Sherlocks 2026 program. Now in its eighth edition, the program has so far involved thousands of participants from around the world, offering hands-on training in open-source intelligence (OSINT) methodologies, interactive sessions with experts in digital governance and technology policy, as well as networking opportunities in a

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Is Romania “Going to War”? How Russian Propaganda Fabricated a False Escalation

ANALYSIS, DISinfo RADAR

On March 11, 2026, the Supreme Council for National Defense (CSAT) approved the United States’ request to temporarily deploy refueling aircraft, surveillance equipment, and satellite communications systems in Romania to support U.S. operations in the war with Iran. The decision, subsequently endorsed by Parliament, was presented by Romanian authorities as strictly

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How the US Legal Committee Report Was Used to Delegitimize the EU and Romania (Part II)

ANALYSIS, DISinfo RADAR

Based on analyses of English-language sources, using aggregated data from Meltwater and correlated with AI-assisted narrative clustering, a distinct picture emerges—one that is complementary to the one observed in the Russian-language ecosystem described in Part I of the analysis. The overall context points to a rapid and concentrated amplification of politically sensitive narratives,

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How the US Legal Committee Report was Used to Delegitimize the EU and Romania (Part I)

ANALYSIS, DISinfo RADAR

Following the publication of the preliminary report by the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, which rejects the existence of conclusive evidence of Russian interference in the 2024 Romanian presidential elections and instead accuses the European Union of interference through mechanisms to combat disinformation, a rapid wave of converging narratives appeared online. These

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Russia's "Shadow Fleet" uses Romania's Exclusive Economic Zone to Circumvent Western Sanctions

ANALYSIS, OSINT TOOLS

To properly understand what is happening in the western Black Sea, it is essential to place these movements in a broader geopolitical, economic, and security context that goes far beyond a simple analysis of AIS tracks. The ships we are talking about do not appear in a vacuum, and their behavior is not the result of isolated decisions, but part of

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