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📷Moldova’s 2025 elections faced a coordinated hybrid attack combining cyber operations, disinformation, and attempts to manufacture “evidence” of fraud.

The goal wasn’t to change results — but to undermine public trust.

Read the full analysis: https://t.co/YzgnmxHOjd

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⛪ Church. Elections. Foreign influence.

📊 Our latest analysis reveals how faith-based messaging became a powerful tool in Kremlin-linked FIMI operations during Moldova’s 2024–2025 elections.

https://t.co/KWJJ3eDYrZ

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🧠 New report: Externally Facing Influence Campaigns
📢 Much of the discussion on disinformation focuses on social media and mass audiences. This report looks elsewhere — at grasstops influence operations targeting Western policymakers and institutions.
🔗https://t.co/8u9ro8gIiC

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Sergiu Tofilat for Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft: https://t.co/dZQQxhHAlZ

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Honoured to contribute to the investigation @resetdottech. See more in @lemondefr.

https://t.co/2UdBtyCJt5

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Russia is a source of instability for Moldova: Chisinau expelled Russian diplomats: https://t.co/HsSZwX4r8x

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The Kremlin is using in Moldova similar tactics of hybrid war it used in Ukraine.

https://t.co/7HgBZPNUuZ

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https://t.co/ogmdg69nFV experts, together with partner organisations in neighbouring countries and with the support of the Black Sea Trust and the European Union, have developed a pilot study of the Energy Security Scoreboard.
https://t.co/UisZXd7QKR

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Thrilled to discuss the challenges the US political system, and the waves of disinformation it has faced in recent years with gorgeous @SarahbaxterSTM, former deputy editor of The Sunday Times publication, the head of Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting. @cspecairex

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Andrei Curăraru: Civil society plays an important role in disseminating information about advantages of EPC Summit
https://t.co/yA3SwpmvLh

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🇪🇺 We would like to express our gratitude to the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Moldova, which highly appreciated the efforts of the https://t.co/ynmHDem7Cc Community in the fight against disinformation.

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“They are always trying to weaponise narratives in one way or another,” said Andrei Curararu, associate researcher at Watchdog MD. https://t.co/tW4cHDU4cp

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Russia’s Toolkit in Its “Near Abroad” – Case of Georgia and Moldova

https://t.co/gTQ8STXjkd

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Moldovan oligarch, wanted at home in billion-dollar scandal, backs Russian interests from a haven in Israel https://t.co/VMXhG8DCrj

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https://t.co/ynmHDem7Cc Community presented the results of the third survey on the perception of disinformation and political preferences of the population

https://t.co/evsjKplUwa

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🧐 “The fact that people trust some of the Russian narratives doesn’t mean that they’re pro-Russian. This is about the efficiency of their strategic messages,” Valeriu Pașa said. https://t.co/J9hvueV3Hu

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Case study. Is Romania joining Schengen?
https://t.co/KA2zXHyhCl

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Today a meeting with @Kateryna_Kruk and Oskar Braszczynski, representatives of META, was held at the ���https://t.co/ynmHDem7Cc” Community office. We discussed the progress of Facebook's current efforts to address disinformation in Moldova.

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We were pleased to see Paul Massaro @apmassaro3 from Helsinki Commision and Benjamin Long (USAID), at our office today. Discussed main security issues Moldova is facing.

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🔝https://t.co/85OTsmIal0 says Russian disinformation rocketed tenfold in Moldova since the war in Ukraine.

https://t.co/wSEgNGBaKj