Face aux attaques informationnelles, la question n'est plus de savoir si votre organisation sera visée, mais si elle sera prête. Rumeur virale, faux comptes…

For five months, we tracked over 100,000 ads displayed across 131 websites in Eastern Europe. After decoding the hidden mechanisms behind these ads, we uncovered a network of Russian companies. This i...

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What are the most pressing problems facing the European information integrity community today? And what resources, capabilities or infrastructure could help to mitigate these problems? This short survey (~5 minutes) helps us learn about what to advocate for and what to prioritise. Thank you for your input. This survey is conducted by CheckFirst and EFCSN.

We are delighted and proud to celebrate our sixth anniversary! We marked this occasion by reflecting on our achievements and learnings over the past year.

We spent one month ahead of Armenian parliamentary elections monitoring disinformation spread by foreign Information Manipulation Sets and tracking what recommendation algorithms were pushing to diaspora users searching for content about the vote.

These Guidelines have been produced by organisations conducting Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) based research for public interest in Europe. The organisations having participated in the redaction of those Guidelines are EU DisinfoLab, CheckFirst, Centre for Information Resilience, DFR Lab, Open Facto, OSINTCurious, and Logically. We acknowledge that we do not represent the entire OSINT community […]

On May 19th, Nelly Pailleux discussed the ethical implications while conducting OSINT investigations in light of the ObSINT guidelines.

On April 23rd, Hervé Letoqueux presented findings from two recent investigations merging OSINT and phaleristics.

Explore how OSINT analysis of Russian military medals and insignia reveals hidden structures within the FSB and GRU’s cyber and intelligence operations.

Atelier immersif avec Samsa et CheckFirst

We constructed a one-day training with the French training organisation Samsa to help French journalists to learn how to identify and analyze information manipulation, disinformation campaigns, and coordinated inauthentic behavior in electoral context.

36000 communes, combien d'attaques informationnelles ?

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L’objectif de cet événement est d’échanger sur les enseignements stratégiques du conflit en Ukraine .