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Dec132022

A pack of viral lies: disinformation narratives about Ukraine and why are Bulgarians gobbling them down?

News & EventsBy Boryana VelchevaDecember 13, 2022

Flash Report Author: Gloria Trifonova, Svetoslav Malinov, Todor Galev, CSD The Kremlin’s extensive and methodical disinformation campaign against Ukraine began long before its invasion on February 24, 2022. And it has only grown in complexity and scale since. Bulgaria is…

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Dec132022

Expert on Darik: Bulgarians believe in conspiracies and pro-Russian propaganda the most of all Europeans

News & EventsBy FENCEDecember 13, 2022

CSD, together with several other organizations, including the AEJ, organized a press conference to talk about the Kremlin’s pro-Russian disinformation and anti-democratic messages in Bulgaria in the context of the information war. According to T. Galev from CSD, when disinformation…

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Oct252022

Press conference on “Pro-Russian disinformation and the Kremlin’s anti-democratic messages in Bulgaria in the context of information war”

News & EventsBy FENCEOctober 25, 2022

Although Russia’s economic presence in Europe has been declining in last two years, Bulgaria alongside with Serbia are the countries most inclined to safeguard and showcase pro-Russian disinformation and propaganda narratives and sentiments in Southeastern Europe. They serve as key…

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Sep92022

OPEN CALL: Debunking and fact-checking articles exposing Kremlin disinformation

News & EventsBy FENCESeptember 9, 2022

The FENCE initiative, supported by the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), offers small-scale grants to boost fact-checking and debunking activities in Southeast Europe, with a special focus on Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania. The initiative’s aim is to reveal the Kremlin’s disinformation and propaganda narratives being…

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Sep52022

Factcheck.bg became member of the International Fact-Checking Network

News & EventsBy FENCESeptember 5, 2022

Factcheck.bg is the first fact-checking platform in Bulgaria, endorsed by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in the USA. Factcheck.bg was launched in June 2021 as an initiative of the Association of European Journalists…

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Apr52022

Countering malign foreign disinformation and propaganda

News & EventsBy FENCEApril 5, 2022

Countering Russian disinformation and propaganda requires not only deterrence, but also a long-term strategy of media literacy training and awareness campaigns for the general public. In the short term, the creation of a state body to monitor the media environment…

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Mar92022

Disinformation narratives in January 2022, related to the protests in Kazakhstan

News & EventsBy FENCEMarch 9, 2022

As part of its ongoing research on disinformation and foreign influence, CSD is monitoring the disinformation narratives related to the situation in Kazakhstan that appeared in Bulgarian News Front’s content during the first half of January 2022. The outlet published…

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Feb272022

Factcheck.bg: Nuclear or information bombs – no facts, only words

News & EventsBy FENCEFebruary 27, 2022

The narrative about the Ukrainian “nuclear bomb” may not be among the most popular stories in our country related to the war in Ukraine. But the way in which it is constructed illustrates how Kremlin propaganda works: loud claims, unsupported…

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Feb262022

The Association of the European Journalist calls for complete ban on RT propaganda

News & EventsBy FENCEFebruary 26, 2022

The AEJ today calls for an EU-wide ban on RT, which has played a key part in spreading lies and endorsing “false flag” that ensured confusion over Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine, and in general seeking to weaken Western democracies…

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Feb242022

Mediapool.bg: Could Bulgariа order for F-16 fighters become a Russian weapon in the hybrid warfare?

News & EventsBy FENCEFebruary 24, 2022

The deal with the US for eight F-16 fighter jets is the most significant and expensive step in the modernisation of the Bulgarian army in at least 20 years, but now it is in danger of becoming a hybrid tool…

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Feb242022

Mediappol.bg: The loopholes in the Bulgarian position on the crisis in Ukraine are becoming more dangerous

News & EventsBy FENCEFebruary 24, 2022

Bulgaria has once again proven to be one of the most insecure NATO member states – with a divided society, a “captured” political class, corruption and lack of leadership, and the cost of this behaviour in the deepening crisis over…

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Feb242022

Disinformation attack in Bulgaria: “There is no Russian aggression in Ukraine” and “Happy freedom from fascism”

News & EventsBy FENCEFebruary 24, 2022

“There is no Russian aggression against Ukraine”; “Ukraine has joined the Russian Federation”; “Happy freedom, Russian brothers and sisters”. Such and other similar misinformation posts and statuses are being spread in hundreds of Bulgarian Facebook groups and dozens of websites,…

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Nov122021

Press conference “Disinformation Narratives in the November 2021 Bulgarian Elections Campaign: Key Actors and Amplifiers”

News & EventsBy FENCENovember 12, 2021

On 12 November 2021, the Center of the Study of Democracy held a press conference Disinformation Narratives in the November 2021 Bulgarian Elections Campaign: Key Actors and Amplifiers. On the event was presented recent analysis assessing the main propaganda and disinformation…

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Nov122021

Disinformation Narratives in the November 2021 Bulgarian Elections Campaign

News & EventsBy FENCENovember 12, 2021

In its Policy Brief Disinformation Narratives in the November 2021 Bulgarian Elections Campaign: Key Actors and Amplifiers Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) is exploring Bulgaria’s growing vulnerability to propaganda and disinformation in the context of November 2021 parliamentary…

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