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BROD at the DSA Conference in Amsterdam:  Developing Commons-Based Digital Governance to Address Media Literacy Crises - The Case of Bulgaria

BROD was invited to the 2nd DSA Observatory Conference, hosted by Amsterdam Law School on 16–17 February 2026, where scholars, regulators, practitioners, and civil society experts come together to assess how the Digital Services Act is functioning in practice and to reflect on its implications for platform accountability, fundamental rights, and democratic governance in Europe and beyond. [+]

#ClimateFactsMatter: DG Climate Action launched a campaign with EDMO and EU Disinfo Lab

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action launched the campaign #ClimateFactsMatter, developed in collaboration with EDMO and EU Disinfo Lab experts. [+]

Rig It! Win elections through manipulation in a new game from the creators of Bad News, Harmony Square, and Cat Park

Rig it! is co-created by GLOBSEC and DROG and develops skills for recognizing manipulative techniques used during election campaigns. [+]

CDMSI adopts policy document on national MIL strategies

In December 2025, the Council of Europe’s CDMSI adopted the policy document National Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Strategies: Practical Steps and Indicators, aiming to support CoE's member states in effectively responding to the transformations in the media and information ecosystem brought about by the digital era. [+]

European Digital Media Observatory hubs convened in Brussels to exchange best practices in fighting disinformation

The in-person event, held on December 5, focused on showcasing lessons learned and best practices specifically related to disinformation and media and information literacy. [+]

After SIIF 2025: the importance and vulnerabilities of information integrity were discussed at the Institut français de Bulgarie

In her opening speech, Her Excellency the Ambassador of France, Ms. Marie Dumoulin, recalled that disinformation today acts like a virus that weakens our societies by damaging the information environment dominated by social networks and facilitating external interference and stressed the need for a three-pronged response: detection, platform regulation, and media literacy. [+]

17th Dubrovnik Media Days: The changing role of AI in journalism

At the 17th International Media Days conference in Dubrovnik the main topic was Generative Artificial Intelligence. [+]

NTCenter (BROD) won the 2025 European Award for Innovative Teaching

The European Commission has awarded The NTCenter, one of the Bulgarian partners in the Bulgarian-Romanian Digital Media Observatory, with the 2025 European Innovative Teaching Award. [+]

Position Document regarding the National Defense Strategy of the Country 2025-2030

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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Disinformation and Teens: Polling Insights by NTCenter

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. [+]

BROD's Significant Contribution to the Sofia Information Integrity Forum 2025

How can we counter disinformation? This was the topic of the lecture by Prof. Stephen Lewandowsky that kicked off the Sofia Information Integrity Forum 2025 on November 5, 2025. The event was officially opened by Prof. Silvia Ilieva, Director of the GATE Institute, and Dr Keith Kiely, Science Coordinator of BROD. [+]

Project Kicks Off: BROD 2.0 starts Second Phase with Regional Workshop on Election Integrity in Southeast Europe

The second phase of the Bulgarian-Romanian Observatory of Digital Media (BROD 2.0) officially commenced on November 5, 2025, with a workshop dedicated to “Election Integrity in Southeast Europe,” marking a significant step in the regional effort to combat disinformation and enhance democratic resilience. [+]

BROD partner AFP represented at Myth Detector’s annual conference in Chișinău

On November 7-8, 2025, Myth Detector, a Georgian Fact-Checking organization, and Deutsche Welle Akademie, in partnership with Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Canal France International (CFI) Media Development Agency, Media Development Foundation (MDF), and StopFals (Moldova) organise the Eastern Partnership Fact-Checkers Annual Conference "Unveil the Truth" in Chișinău, Moldova. [+]