MISREAD THE STARS, MISLEAD THE PUBLIC: RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA AND FORTUNE-TELLING ON TIKTOK
Author: Octavian Bernaz Co-author: Eugen Muravschi "[...] Sandu doesn't decide anything, she's just a puppet in the hands of the West [...] A woman is at the helm in Moldova, and that must be eliminated." - @TaroVneformata "Russia is the STAR [...] all paths lead to...
What has PAS achieved and what has it failed to achieve in four years of government? September 2025
Open the analysis here. Context Did the Action and Solidarity Party (PAS) succeed to honor their campaign promises after 4 years in power or not? In the electoral controversy on the eve of the parliamentary elections, it seems difficult to find the answer. However,...
THE RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION NETWORK IN MOLDOVA: ANATOMY OF A SOCIAL MEDIA OPERATION
Author: Andrei Rusu Co-authors: Andrei Curăraru, Eugen Muravschi In the context of the parliamentary elections scheduled for 28 September in the Republic of Moldova, the Kremlin has activated an extensive propaganda machinery across YouTube, TikTok, Facebook,...
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...