Monitoring report on gender disinformation and manipulation June 10 – 16, 2024
Iulia Cebotari, WatchDog.md Community Monitoring team: Rodica Pîrgari, Gabriela Revenco, Andrei Rusu In this report, gender disinformation refers to the spread of false or misleading information about gender identity and sexuality, individuals of different genders and...
Energy Transparency Index 2023
The Republic of Moldova accumulated 58 points out of 100, ranking lower than Georgia (73) and Romania (86), but higher than Ukraine (38), according to the Energy Transparency Index for 2023, conducted for the 3 Eastern Partnership countries. The energy transparency...
Monitoring Report on Gender-Based Disinformation and Manipulation
Between October 5 and November 5, the WatchDog.MD Community, as part of its current monitoring of disinformation regarding democratic values, also monitored manipulative and false messages targeting the gender dimension. Based on the evaluation of the content of 16...
REPORT: MAPPING ANTIEU NARRATIVES IN MOLDOVA
This study monitoring and mapping anti-EU narratives is unprecedented in the region. The results so far show that the main goal of the anti-EU propaganda is to discredit the European integration process in Moldova and not so much to discredit the European Union...
IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA, RUSSIA STILL FEELS AT “HOME”
Television remains the most important source of information about the country and abroad, being preferred by almost half of the respondents to the latest Public Opinion Barometer. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, public trust in Russian and Russian-language...
Mapping Russian narratives about the war in Ukraine. What Putin wants us to hear. How his message gets through in the US
Russia’s information warfare against the West has been carried out for years. But in February 2022, it became a part of an actual war, when Vladimir Putin employed techniques to convince the world of the necessity of “a special operation”, as Russia likes to call its...
Case study: NATO SUMMIT IN BUCHAREST
One of the major events of November 2022 was the NATO Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Bucharest on 29-30 November, where Western leaders were called to assess the implementation of NATO’s strategic concept, adopted last summer in Madrid, and to discuss how the West can...
“LEOPARDS” – ON THE TRAIL OF DISINFORMATION
Germany has given the green light for the delivery of Leopard tanks to Ukraine, the government in Berlin announced on 25 January. Shortly after Berlin's announcement, US President Joe Biden confirmed that the US would send Ukraine 31 Abrams tanks. Thus, after weeks of...
Reflection of the main geopolitical actors in Moldovan TV news in November 2022
The study looked at how 12 countries, 4 international organisations and 11 foreign leaders from Europe, North America and Asia were covered in the news of 8 of the most popular TV channels. Each of the monitored subjects was given one point for each mention in the...