{"id":181561,"date":"2022-05-16T14:56:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T12:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/?p=181561"},"modified":"2024-04-18T12:10:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T10:10:55","slug":"edmo-report-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/2022\/05\/16\/edmo-report-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Targets of Ukraine-related disinformation become clearer in April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 25 organizations part of the EDMO fact-checking network<\/a> that contributed to this brief published a total of 1.337 factchecking articles in April 2022. Out of these articles, 580 (43%) focused on Ukraine-related disinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This percentage is lower than the previous month <\/a>(59%), but is still one of the highest percentages of disinformation about one single topic ever detected in these briefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The percentage’s drop is most likely due to many factors: a slowing down of the Russian offensive on the ground in April, the fading of the shock-effect registered in March, and relevant local events (e.g. the elections in France or in Slovenia).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Covid-19 related detected disinformation in April stays at the same level like in March<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Out of the 1.337 fact-checking articles published in March by the 25 organizations part of the EDMO fact-checking network that contributed to this brief, 107 (8%) focused on COVID-19-related disinformation. The percentage is similar to the one monitored in March (9%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main narrative is an already detected one, i.e. that vaccines are very dangerous: they supposedly cause heart attacks, epathites, AIDS and in general various adverse events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seven narratives emerge as the most viral and persistent in detected disinformation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n