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Since algorithms, and in particular, those of search engines and social media, influence our information, consumption, relationships and politics, citizens should know how they word and what their effects are.

CrossOver recently took part in the Digital Winter School, an event that offers an intensive one-week program focused on new media and digital methods.

A study of the Belgian media landscape as aggregated by Google News

An analysis showing how Russian official narratives get pushed whenever “nazis” show up on the platform.

As hundreds of thousands of Twitter users are leaving the service after Elon Musk bought it, the CrossOver team decided to add another platform to its monitoring: Mastodon.

CrossOver will be presented at several webinars, conferences or discussions. Want to hear more about the project? It’s here.

An investigation to demonstrate how French speaking Belgians were hinted at searching for dubious sources when looking up the word “Donbass” in the Google search bar.

Beijing is not pleased with a long-awaited United Nations report on human rights violations by China against the Uighurs in Xinjiang.

The second repatriation of women and children of Islamic State (ISIS) to Belgium provokes a lot of criticism. There is a lack of understanding, mistrust and a fear of new attacks. The return is stirring up public opinion on social media, as shown by data retrieved by CrossOver.

On June 9, we presented the methodology and lessons learnt from our investigation on “Are YouTube algorithms addicted to State-controlled media?”