{"id":191180,"date":"2025-04-15T12:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T10:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/2025\/04\/15\/disinformation-about-ucraine-and-the-eu-gets-louder-in-march\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T10:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T08:20:32","slug":"disinformation-about-ucraine-and-the-eu-gets-louder-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/2025\/04\/15\/disinformation-about-ucraine-and-the-eu-gets-louder-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Disinformation about Ucraine and the EU gets louder in march"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The 31 organizations* part of the EDMO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/\">fact-checking network<\/a> that contributed to this brief published a total<br>of 1.888 fact-checking articles in March 2025. Out of these articles, 303 (16%) focused on Ukraine-related<br>disinformation; 169 (9%) on disinformation related to the EU; 123 (7%) on disinformation related to immigration; 8 (5%) on COVID-19-related disinformation; 81 (4%) on climate change-related disinformation; 21 (1%) on the Middle Eastern regional conflict, and 20 (1%) on disinformation about LGBTQ+ and gender issues.<br><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>After doubling in February, false information about the war in Ukraine continued to rise in March, increasing by 5% in one month and eventually accounting for 16% of total detected disinformation. This is the highest value recorded since March 2023. The number of false stories targeting the EU also grew by 2 percentage points, rising to 9% from 7%. The increase in disinformation on these two topics followed a path started in February 2025, when a major shift in foreign policy by the new US administration opened a second front of interference for the EU infosphere.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1953\" height=\"734\" src=\"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-15-115704.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191071\"\/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>AI-GENERATED DISINFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The percentage of disinformation stories using AI-generated content remained stable in March, resembling<br>February\u2019s figures. Out of 1.888 fact-checking articles, 127 addressed the use of this technology in disinformation,<br>representing 6% of the total<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1122\" height=\"635\" src=\"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-15-115852.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191073\"\/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>AI-generated images of US Vice President JD Vance allegedly telling pro-Ukrainian protesters<br>to join the Ukrainian army circulated on social media after the public spat between Trump<br>and Zelensky. Later in March, images and videos of the Myanmar earthquake were found to<br>be generated with AI software, as was the case of an AI-edited video showing two Slovenian<br>politicians allegedly kissing each other. Another interesting case was reported in Spain, where<br>Maldita identified two TikTok profiles posting AI-generated videos on presumed corruption cases<br>affecting Spanish PM Pedro S\u00e1nchez and his government, reportedly uncovered by the Trump<br>administration.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>CLICK <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/edmo.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/EDMO-Horizontal-46.pdf\">HERE<\/a><\/strong> FOR MORE INFORMATIONS ABOUT THE NEW EDMO MONTHLY BRIEF<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monthly brief no. 46 \u2013 EDMO fact-checking network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":191076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4922],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191180","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\/191180","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=191180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191181,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191180\/revisions\/191181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}