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Watch: Open Newsroom - The EU frontline against Russian disinformation

Watch our Open Newsroom session on Russia disinformation and what we can all do to push back against it

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THIS WEEK, THE Good Information Project hosted an Open Newsroom webinar on Russian disinformation and the steps that the EU is taking to stop it. 

Moderator Christine Bohan was joined by Aoife Gallagher of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, Tommaso Canetta, deputy director of Pagella Politica, an Italian fact-checking outlet and co-ordinator of the fact-checking activities inside EDMO, and The Journal FactCheck reporter Brianna Parkins.

Our panel looked at the disinformation tactics used by Russia as part of their war in Ukraine, including false accusations of the use of “crisis actors” in Bucha, fake fact-checks, and Vladimir Putin’s exploitation of divisions in Western society.

Watch below for a lively and insightful conversation, covering tips and tactics that you can use to combat the influence of disinformation and misinformation in your own news consumption.

This work is co-funded by Journal Media and a grant programme from the European Parliament. Any opinions or conclusions expressed in this work are the author’s own. The European Parliament has no involvement in nor responsibility for the editorial content published by the project. For more information, see here.

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    Dec 13th 2022, 8:59 AM

    The emergency planning committee will sort it out I’m sure.

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    Dec 13th 2022, 9:20 AM

    It was 4 degrees at 5.30am when I was going to work… Its raining here now Cork City

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    Dec 13th 2022, 12:23 PM

    @Marcus Mc Cann: Breaking news: weather is different in different parts of country.

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    Dec 13th 2022, 4:24 PM

    @Marcus Mc Cann:

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    Dec 13th 2022, 9:52 AM

    Does the article actually say what the temp was?

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    Dec 13th 2022, 8:40 AM

    Brass monkeys and all that, actually, my Mom had a set of those brass monkeys and they didn’t have any to freeze lol.

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    Dec 13th 2022, 10:03 AM

    @Anna Carr: the brass monkey was actually the plate on which they stacked the canon balls on Royal Navy ships. The reference to freezing the balls off them was when so much ice built up on them that the canon balls would fall of the plate/monkey.

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    Dec 13th 2022, 10:05 AM

    @Ivan Connolly: Myth!!!

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    Dec 13th 2022, 8:51 AM

    And I say, “Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.” And he says, “Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.” So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.

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