Fake News

With accessible, quality information ever harder to come by, we look at the trends transforming the European media landscape today and the implications for democracy.

The internet of today is far from the digital promised land first imagined by cyber utopians. Geopolitics will play a defining role in shaping its future.

Despite the attention on fake news, independent media are being left to survive on their own in the face of hostility and a struggle for revenues.

Analysis of the run-up to the June 24 elections in Turkey in a media landscape plagued by repression of dissent, fake news, and suspicion from all sides.

Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz were delivered to victory by an unfair system, media manipulation, and attacking their enemies. Opposition failure made it too easy for them.

An examination of the politics behind steps to regulate online hate speech, misinformation, and data privacy in the EU.

A round-up of the fake news debate across European countries.

Voters in the Visegrad countries rely on increasingly blurred lines between truth and falsehoods while making their choice at polling stations.

Fake news is thriving in the new media environment, presenting a threat to our democratic societies which we underestimate at our peril.