Propagandists have proven to be highly adept in constantly reinventing reality in autocratic countries, particularly Russia, where the fact that reality has constantly...
Tag - Media
The world of social media is changing. In 2023, Elon Musk’s Twitter has 353.9 million users, almost four per cent fewer than in 2022, and is expected to lose another...
A recent hackathon dedicated to countering disinformation was won by a Ukrainian team that focuses on identifying false narratives and analysing their scale. I have...
A timely new book questions human authenticity, meritocracy, fairness, and the norms and regulations which will be required to guide our future course. I was recently...
Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, has vetoed a controversial media law that critics say targets Discovery-owned TVN. Citing a US-Poland trade agreement from 1990 and a...
Eyebrows have been raised across Europe by a deal that will see an investment firm with ties to Hungary’s eurosceptic PM Viktor Orbán buy pan-European news...
The Warsaw Stock Exchange is going into the advertising business. Advertising may not immediately appear to be a natural progression for a stock exchange, albeit Central...
How and why, after over 30 or so years since the fall of communism, has media in the core countries of Central and Eastern Europe started to resemble those of the past...
Authorities in Belarus this week intensified their repression of independent media, shutting down the country’s largest news portal, TUT.by. The largest and most...
A franchised Euronews TV station is set to launch in Serbia by the end of the month, but while some have welcomed the development, including Prime Minister Ana Brnabić...
When Serbia went into lockdown last year to prevent the spread of Covid-19, it was not the first time that the country had closed its doors and battened down the...
Journalists are still being detained in Belarus, months after a rigged presidential election. Among the latest to have been arrested is Yulia Slutskaya, founder of the...