{"id":188110,"date":"2025-01-20T12:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T11:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/?p=188110"},"modified":"2025-01-28T15:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:24:13","slug":"the-edmo-monthly-brief-on-disinformation-detected-in-the-eu-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/2025\/01\/20\/the-edmo-monthly-brief-on-disinformation-detected-in-the-eu-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"The EDMO monthly brief on disinformation detected in the EU in December"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (apri in una nuova scheda)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DISINFORMATION<\/a> ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE HALVES, WHILE FALSE STORIES<br>ABOUT UKRAINE AND COVID-19 INCREASE SLIGHTLY<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 31 organizations part of the EDMO fact-checking network that contributed to this brief published a total<br>of 1.481 fact-checking articles in December 2024. Out of these articles, 130 (9%) focused on Ukraine-related<br>disinformation; 87 (6%) on climate change-related disinformation; 83 (5%) on disinformation related to the<br>EU; 22 (1%) on the Middle Eastern regional conflict; 75 (6%) on COVID-19-related disinformation; 52 (3%) on<br>disinformation related to immigration; and 35 (2%) on disinformation about LGBTQ+ and gender issues<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The percentage of disinformation related to the war in Ukraine increased slightly, as did false stories on COVID-19<br>related issues. The shares of false information about the other constantly monitored topics remained almost stable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-8-1024x381.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188113\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AI-GENERATED DISINFORMATION<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The percentage of disinformation stories using AI-generated content slightly increased in December. Out of<br>1.481 fact-checking articles, 72 addressed the use of this technology in disinformation, representing 5% of the<br>total. The values in previous months highlight a fluctuating trend for this disinformation technique, but always<br>relatively low<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-9-1024x566.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188115\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from the already mentioned cases about Syria, false stories involving AI-generated<br>content concerned the alleged intimacy between the current German Chancellor and<br>Ukraine president Zelensky, a fight between Austrian politicians, and people walking in<br>the Thessaloniki metro tunnel. The release by X of Grok, an image-generation model<br>without restrictions, has been used to flood the platform with hyper-realistic AI-generated<br>images, also to spread racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CLICK <a href=\"https:\/\/edmo.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/EDMO-Horizontal-43.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (apri in una nuova scheda)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a> to read the full EDMO monthly brief<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMO has published its latest monthly fact-checking brief. Focus on: Magdeburg\u2019s attack and Syria regime change: Islamophobia strikes back again in December<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":189293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4922],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edmo-hub-en"],"acf":{"share_this_post_to_edmo_website":false,"type_of_post":false,"options_for_news_post":{"":""},"options_for_event_post":{"event_start_date":null,"event_end_date":null,"event_location":"","event_programme":""},"options_for_report_post":{"post_author":"","report_type":false,"report_pdf_link":""},"options_for_investigation_post":{"post_author":""},"affiliation":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189295,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188110\/revisions\/189295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}