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The TikTok effect: How The App Shaped Political Discourse During Finnish European Elections
After focusing on YouTube & Google, a new report by Faktabaari and CheckFirst as part of the CrossOver Finland project has uncovered worrying trends around TikTok’s possible impact on the 2024 European elections in Finland.
Is China trying to control the narrative about Xinjiang on Google News?
A study of the Belgian media landscape as aggregated by Google News
Why is “Nazis” regularly trending on Twitter in Belgium?
An analysis showing how Russian official narratives get pushed whenever “nazis” show up on the platform.
CrossOver now also monitors Mastodon
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.
Upcoming events: where to hear from CrossOver in fall 2022
CrossOver will be presented at several webinars, conferences or discussions. Want to hear more about the project? It’s here.
Disinformation on Donbas is only a Google autocomplete away
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.
Online Chinese media offensive also reaches Belgium
Beijing is not pleased with a long-awaited United Nations report on human rights violations by China against the Uighurs in Xinjiang.
Unresolved jihad targets Europe
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.
Replay: EDMO BELUX Webinar: “An analysis of recommendation algorithms on YouTube against disinformation”
On June 9, we presented the methodology and lessons learnt from our investigation on “Are YouTube algorithms addicted to State-controlled media?”
Looking back to Apache Day!
CrossOver was at the heart of the debate on disinformation, entitled “Separating sense from nonsense” at Apache Day
Dries Van Langenhove also roams on Odysee, the ‘YouTube of the extreme right’
The video platform Odysee is gaining popularity in France and the United States. The site claims to be free from censorship and prides itself on freedom of expression.