In early October 2026, a piece of international news began to move through the Bulgarian media landscape with quiet but unmistakable force: the data centers of Yandex, one of Russia’s leading technology companies, had been attacked. For many ordinary readers, the story may have seemed distant — a technical incident involving a foreign internet giant, far from everyday Bulgarian concerns. But for BROD, a Bulgarian media research and fact-checking organization and one of the fifteen national and regional hubs within the European Digital Media Observatory network, the story was worth a closer look. From 8 to 13 October 2026, BROD…

Here is a humanized summary of the IBERIFIER report, expanded into six reflective paragraphs. — Disinformation is often described as a flood of falsehoods, but the work of IBERIFIER—one of the fifteen independent hubs that make up the European Digital Media Observatory—reveals something far more human and unsettling. Across nine quarterly briefs examining the spread of false narratives in Spain and Portugal, a clear image emerges: disinformation does not float randomly through the internet; it attaches itself to the moments that matter most to people. It clings to emergencies, political turbulence, and international crises, disguising itself as urgency, fear, or…