{"id":208204,"date":"2024-07-09T17:02:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T14:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watchdog.md\/?p=208204"},"modified":"2024-07-19T13:08:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T10:08:45","slug":"evaluarea-campaniilor-de-dezinformare-finantate-de-sor-si-platon-impactul-si-reactia-limitata-a-platformelor-sociale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdog.md\/en\/analyzes\/208204\/evaluarea-campaniilor-de-dezinformare-finantate-de-sor-si-platon-impactul-si-reactia-limitata-a-platformelor-sociale\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluation of disinformation campaigns financed by \u0218or and Platon: impact and limited reaction of social platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Author: Andrei Rusu, WatchDog.MD<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Co-authors: Andrei Cur\u0103raru, Valeriu Pa\u0219a<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fugitive oligarchs Ilan \u0218or and Veaceslav Platon intensified their disinformation campaigns on online platforms. Between June 1 and June 30, 2024, both spent about <strong>55,250 euros<\/strong> promoting disinformation on Facebook. Compared to the period from April 25 to May 24, the two spent <strong>24,250 euros more <\/strong>on promoting disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>META&#8217;s limited reaction did not stop the spread of disinformation on Facebook and Instagram. Blocking the pages of Ilan \u0218or, Marina Tauber, Eugenia Gu\u021bul and Alexei Lungu did not deliver any visible results in combating disinformation. It instead increased the number of anonymous pages that sponsor disinformation for enormous sums, against which META is belatedly taking action.<\/p>\n<p>The pages of members of the &#8220;Renaissance&#8221; Party remain active, and unlike Ilan \u0218or or Eugenia Gu\u021bul, they openly promote manipulative and hate-inciting advertisements from their pages.<\/p>\n<p>The main manipulations promoted are &#8220;<em>Moldova is ruled by foreigners<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Moldova does not negotiate on equal footing with the EU<\/em>&#8220;, &#8220;<em>The autumn elections will be rigged<\/em>,&#8221; and &#8220;<em>Russia is the strategic partner of Moldova<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The main purpose of these sponsored campaigns is to sow panic in society, discredit Moldovan European integration process, and whitewash Russia&#8217;s image.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdog.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Analysis-evaluation-of-the-disinformation-campaigns-financed-by-Sor-and-Platon-2-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open the analysis here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Andrei Rusu, WatchDog.MD Co-authors: Andrei Cur\u0103raru, Valeriu Pa\u0219a Fugitive oligarchs Ilan \u0218or and Veaceslav Platon intensified their disinformation campaigns on online platforms. Between June 1 and June 30, 2024, both spent about 55,250 euros promoting disinformation on Facebook. Compared to the period from April 25 to May 24, the two spent 24,250 euros more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analyzes","category-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdog.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdog.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdog.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdog.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdog.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/watchdog.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdog.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdog.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdog.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdog.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}