russian propaganda in the Spanish-language information field

The Oversight Board has overturned Meta’s original decision to remove a Facebook post comparing the Russian army in Ukraine to Nazis and quoting a poem that calls for the killing of fascists

This is evidenced by OPORA's sociological survey. Thus, 76.6% of citizens after February, 24, have obtained information directly from social networks — Facebook, Instagram, Telegram. YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Viber. However, the performance of these technology companies in war settings is far from prefect. Their content moderation rules sometimes limit the free exchange of information and contribute to the spread of russian disinformation. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion...

Meta has come a long and painful way to learn how to respond to crisis situations in different countries. This coverage will discuss how Meta reacted to the onset of a full-scale russian invasion on Ukraine and whether the company has learned previous lessons.

Since the full-scale invasion of Russia, most of our citizens, namely 76.6%, have been receiving news from social networks. Telegram, YouTube, Facebook came out in the TOP 3 in popularity. Such are the results of a sociological survey on media consumption of Ukrainians in a full-scale war presented by OPORA. In addition, experts discussed issues of self-regulation in social networks, combating misinformation, and how all these challenges of modern realities can be fixed in national legislatio...

Before the invasion, fakers mostly focused on schemes to steal the money from common citizens (such as by selling the non-existent goods or services). During the war, some dishonest Ukrainian people changed the focus and expanded the scale of their action: now the rogue schemes have become more cynical and more related to people’s life and health. For example, they offer fake evacuation options from the occupied territories. The rogues are hunting for their “clients” not in a subway or by pho...

Even before the full-scale russian invasion, Civil Network OPORA was working on exposing anti-Ukrainian Facebook pages, investigating the activities of pro-Russian politicians in social media, and identifying the objectives of the network of pages that promoted russian propaganda in Ukraine. In this piece, analysts share their experience of searching for such media, as illustrated by russian media sites and pages, which OPORA started collecting in February, 2022. Over the month since then, so...

Today, anyone in the world can see the events in Bucha through the lenses of Ukrainian TV channels. However, Russia still tries to attract as many as possible social media users from different countries. In this publication, we will have a look at how the Russian propaganda machine attempts to influence foreign citizens.

In this article, OPORA analyzed how popular advertising is on social media around the world and whether the popularity of advertising in a particular country can be related to its price.

Although 2021 did not show to Ukrainians such bright election campaigns as 2019 and 2020, last year, Ukrainian politicians and parties were active on social media, too. OPORA analyzed key indicators of Facebook advertising campaigns and found out which political forces are already preparing for the upcoming elections, and those that have increased their activity levels on this social media in the last 12 months.