A few months ago, I found myself falling down an internet rabbit hole, the kind that begins with one click and ends with your coffee going cold while you scroll through yet another Substack. The account belonged to NewsGuard, a group that spends its days trying to bring some honesty to a media environment where it is increasingly hard to tell what is real and what is manufactured. Their goal is simple but difficult: to call balls and strikes in media coverage and to flag fake news stories when they surface. Until I found them, I had not realized how…

Imagine scrolling through your social media feed in Bulgaria and suddenly realizing that the posts about the European Union have become quieter, less frequent, fewer and farther between. At first, that might feel like good news. After all, we have grown used to the idea that disinformation is a flood, and when the flood waters recede, we assume the danger has passed. But a new report from the Foundation for Humanities and Social Research – Sofia, published and promoted by BROD, one of the fifteen EDMO Hubs working to monitor and expose digital manipulation across Europe, tells a different and…