Tag: disinformation

23. October 2025.

Gong’s Recommendations: How to Protect Civil Society from Attacks and Disinformation Campaigns

Gong’s set of recommendations, intended to encourage dialogue between civil society organisations and relevant institutions, is open to further additions.

23. January 2025.

Presidential Elections on Social Media: Defamation, Bots, and Questionable Research

The presidential elections confirmed the importance of social media in election campaigns, and the ways in which they can be used for election manipulation, by pushing a defamation campaign, using fake profiles, and publishing questionable research ahead of election silence.

Journalism in the world of AI technology: "Disinformation and journalism" workshop held

The aim of the workshop was to show the students the situation in which journalism finds itself in in terms of pressure, disinformation, and loss of trust, as well as how AI technology will change it in the future.

27. January 2023.

Democracy must be healthy: Only together can we overcome the information collapse

Strengthening resistance to disinformation is the joint responsibility of all stakeholders who can contribute to the development of media, scientific and civic literacy, is the conclusion of Gong's conference "Democracy must be healthy".

23. January 2023.

ADMO - a new regional center for the fight against disinformation

This weekend, Gong attended the founding meeting of ADMO in Dubrovnik.

19. January 2023.

Media literacy in a disinformation world: How to distinguish reliable from unreliable information?

Why media literacy suppresses misinformation, what effect it can have on society, and how to start distinguishing information from misinformation in five simple steps - find out in three short videos!

13. January 2023.

Gong Handbook on Disinformation: How Do They Track us so Successfully?

Gong's handbook addresses some of the sources of journalism's vulnerability to disinformation that the COVID-19 pandemic has alerted us to.

13. September 2022.

Researching COVID-19 conspiracy theories: Who believes in them and how do they affect behavior

Research results show that people who believe in conspiracy theories are not inclined to getting vaccinated (again) in the future.

European perspectives: Fight against disinformation by improving standards in journalism and empowering citizens

The conference concluded that regulation disinformation is not enough; we need to empower media, media literacy and democratic political culture.

Gong shared its experience with the Pro-fact project to CEDMO in the digital study visit

The conclusion of the exchange of experiences and knowledge was that further cooperation and communication is necessary.

The disinformation spread can only be countered by early detection

Participants of “Open data against the infodemic” conference emphasised the need for open data in monitoring and countering disinformation.

13. December 2021.

People trust Facebook more than institutions, media and scientists: Fake news is spread out of fear

Experts on the disinformation influence on society and democracy during the pandemic