BROD will be presented at the roundtable for information integrity in Sofia, organised by the French Insitut

The Embassy of France and the French Institute in Bulgaria are organising a public roundtable featuring experts, journalists, and fact-checkers. Iglika Ivanova from GATE/BROD is among the invited researchers. The Ambassador of France to Bulgaria H.E. Marie Dumoulin will open the event, together with Nikola Miladinov, Press and Media Advisor at the Representation of the European Commission in Bulgaria.

In the age of ever-evolving information manipulations - from sophisticated deepfakes to coordinated disinformation campaigns, the questions of the ability of media, institutions and citizens to resist and cooperate to protect democratic debate are essential. The roundtable aims to examine the challenges facing journalism and fact-checking in Bulgaria and the Black Sea region with a focus on influence operations, the integration of fact-checking practices in mainstream media and the role of media literacy in building sustainable communities. Among the experts are also Ruslan Trad (Digital Forensic Research Lab at the Atlantic Council, co-founder of De Re Militari), journalist Maya Dimitrova from BNT, thanks to whom Bulgaria saw the film "Architects of Chaos", the fact-checker for AFP - a main partner of BROD - Rosen Bosev. The moderator is the Deputy President of the Association of European Journalists - International Irina Nedeva. The event is organized within the framework of the regional project "Strengthening Democratic Media in the Black Sea Region", supported by the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs of France and implemented in partnership with Agence France-Presse (AFP). It is free of charge and is open to everyone - journalists, students, researchers, representatives of civil society, and registration is required.

The specially-designed training interventions with students are part of NTCenter’s media and information literacy activities under BROD – The Bulgarian-Romanian Digital Observatory, part of the EDMO network of regional hubs. [+]

The President of Romania, Mr. Nicușor Dan, presented on Wednesday, November 12, the National Defense Strategy of the Country for the period 2025-2030: "Independence and Solidarity: Romania's Vision for a Changing World". The document is now in public consultation, to be endorsed in CSAT on November 24 and presented in Parliament on November 26.

Funky Citizens and the Center for Independent Journalism (CJI), organizations that are part of the Bulgarian-Romanian Digital Media Observatory, part of EDMO (European Digital Media Observatory), welcome this initiative and appreciate the inclusion of hybrid threats and media education in the strategic document. Therefore, we have chosen to position ourselves on topics in which both organizations have vast and complementary experience: combating disinformation and hybrid threats, as well as media education. We transmit this contribution starting from a common conviction: the greatest threat to Romania's security does not come only from the outside, but from our internal weaknesses. Corruption, deficient public institutions, citizens' lack of trust in the state, the absence of real civic participation mechanisms, the lack of media education and citizens' incapacity to critically evaluate information: these are the vulnerabilities that hybrid threats exploit and that erode the country's democratic resilience.

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BROD will be presented at the roundtable for information integrity in Sofia, organised by the French Insitut

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