The Kremlin’s Digital Pirates: How Russian Tracking Pixels Harvest Romanians’ Data to Fund Conspiracies and Extremism
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 investigation reveals what data is harvested from Romanians, who ends up receiving it, and why the ads shown on platforms with conspiratorial and extremist content are among the most valuable to this network.
#Disinfo2026: what we brought to Vilnius, and what others tried to take away
CheckFirst took part in #Disinfo2026, speaking on FIMI infrastructure, covert influence campaigns and DSA vs climate disinformation. The conference opened under pressure: days earlier, three main sponsors had withdrawn their support after Washington reportedly objected to a panel examining the US as a FIMI threat.
22vla la pub: a new tool to monitor political advertising on social media
Check First is launching 22vlalapub.fr, a tool for monitoring advertising around candidates, their parties, and campaign themes related to the
the French presidential election of 2022 on the platforms of Meta
“Don’t open the door to disinformation”: reject the media exemption in the DSA
Check First, along with 50 other fact-checking organizations, NGO or researchers, reject the proposition of a media exemption in the DSA.
Introduction to the CrossOver project
Crossover is a European project to monitor, analyse and combat algorithmic disinformation.
ODIL, le podcast
ODIL, the podcast, is a series of interviews with actors in the fight against disinformation in the Francophonie.
The FACT bluepaper
the FACT network, a new blockchain with a token-based incentive mechanism for a decentralised global information verification system and database network. The FACT network aims to solve various challenges the information industry faces today.
Who is ODIL?
ODIL, the platform of Francophone initiatives tackling disinformation, brings together anti-disinformation initiatives in the Francophone area.
CLARIN Hackathon on COVID-19 Related Disinformation
In the autumn of 2020, CLARIN organises a virtual hackathon on the detection of disinformation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.