Bulgaria's Ministry of Defence has created a body that will monitor misinformation on the Internet and the media. According to the new regulations for the activities of the Information Center at the department, promulgated in the State Gazette, the..
After a meeting with Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov, British Ambassador to Bulgaria Rob Dixon stated the UK was ready to help Bulgaria even more actively to combat disinformation. The Government Communication Service International..
Attempts at disinformation because of Bulgaria's support for Ukraine are inadmissible, a position of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reads. The reason for the position was a publication of the Russian ambassador Eleonora Mitrofanova..
Behind fake news lie strategies that aim to manipulate public opinion and weaken well-functioning institutions . False rumours and misinformation have been a global threat for a long time, but today the danger is much greater because digital platforms..
“Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off,” according to Blaise Pascal. This observation, made by the French mathematician and physicist in the 17 th century, seems to have sprung back to life..
The mechanisms of Russian propaganda were discussed by experts from Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania and Moldova, at a conference in Sofia entitled “Blurring of the truth: Disinformation in Southeast Europe”. “I don’t believe Russia is paying out a..
Bulgarian citizens are among the most vulnerable in the EU and NATO to foreign disinformation , a Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) analysis showed. According to CSD, pro-Kremlin disinformation has been very strong over the past year because of the..
Bulgaria is one of the most Europhile societies in the EU, but also one of the most Russophile, said Parvan Simeonov from Gallup International Balkan in the discussion of the Electronic Media Council themed "Pluralism and disinformation during war"...
The main channel for spreading disinformation in Bulgaria is Facebook, Minister of Electronic Government Bozhidar Bojanov told the BNR . The first 24 hours are the most important, when the relevant post is gaining momentum on the web and the damage has..
“Disinformation is a systemic problem in Bulgaria, and in other East European countries,” Minister of e-Government Bozhidar Bozhanov said for public service TV BNT. In his words, the most probable source of the disinformation campaigns is Russia...
