I Paesi europei che sono più esposti e influenzati dalla disinformazione russa

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I Paesi europei che sono più esposti e influenzati dalla disinformazione russa  Un nuovo studio afferma che esiste uno sforzo sofisticato per diffondere la disinformazione nelle regioni di valore strategico per il Cremlino, in particolare nell'Europa orientale  ALTRE INFORMAZIONI : http://it.euronews.com/2025/04/18/i-paesi-europei-che-sono-piu-esposti-e-influenzati-dalla-disinformazione-russa  Abbonati, euronews è disponibile in 12 lingue.

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00:00Which European countries are most exposed to Russian disinformation?

00:08Former Soviet states and Balkan countries are the primary targets of the Kremlin's Pravda disinformation network, according to a new study.

00:16The Center for Information, Democracy and Citizenship at the American University in Bulgaria

00:21looked at more than 640,000 publications on the network between December 2024 and March 2025.

00:29It found that former Soviet and Balkan countries accounted for 52% of all publications,

00:35despite representing a disproportionately small fraction of the population of the countries studied.

00:40Specifically, the top three countries most disproportionately targeted by Pravda disinformation are Moldova, Latvia and Estonia,

00:48with Serbia and Armenia making it into the top five.

00:51Lithuania, Georgia, Slovakia, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic round out the top ten.

00:57The proximity of these countries to each other and the statistics show that there's a sophisticated effort to spread disinformation

01:03in regions of strategic value to the Kremlin, according to the study.

01:07But why is Moldova ranked so highly when it comes to Russian disinformation?

01:11One of the reasons is geography, its position between Ukraine and Romania representing a boundary between Eastern and Western Europe,

01:18two different spheres of influence, according to the study.

01:21Another is its political context.

01:23It was given EU candidacy status in June 2022 and is currently dealing with tensions between pro-Western and pro-Russian factions.

01:31This ties into its history too.

01:33As a former Soviet Republic, Moldova has economic, cultural and historical links to Moscow,

01:39while also trying to get closer to the EU.

01:42Experts have previously told EuroVerify that these countries still have the remnants of a pro-Moscow network among certain politicians,

01:49making them more susceptible to Russian narratives.

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