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...
The image of international actors in Moldovan TV news
The WatchDog.MD Community launched an initiative in 2022 to monitor the coverage of international issues in TV news in Moldova. The effort is supported by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) under the project “Strengthening the quality and information capacity...
2023 Energy Security Scoreboard Report
The energy crisis caused by Russian military aggression against Ukraine has led to a review of policies, particularly on the energy security dimension. WatchDog.md experts, together with partner organisations in neighbouring countries and with the support of the Black...