The impact of disinformation about the Ukrainian war in Romania and Moldova

Participants:Diana Filimon, Journalist & Member of DCN GlobalBetty Tsakarestou, Associate Professor and Head of ADandPRLAB at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, GreeceNikos Panagiotou, Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Media Communications of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece & President of DCN GlobalJelina Makrantonaki, JournalistModerator: Aurra Kawanzaruwa, Manager of DCN AFRICA Outstanding quotes:“In both countries, there is a very strong migration from old media to new media and social media, which makes it very hard to control the phenomenon, because disinformation actors are born there. So, they know those spaces better than we do, because we always have to shift, to adapt and to move and to learn new ways to counter this.” - Diana Filimon“Young people are using their own common sense in detecting exaggerated emotions and are very well placing them as being wrong. Most of them are not intentionally well-informed, not even intentionally informed, but they stumble across information. They have this radar though, feeling when they are manipulated emotionally, but it a matter of chance.” - Diana Filimon DisinfoHacks Project is an innovative training program that brings together partners expertise, engaging an ecosystem of communication and media stakeholders, startup innovators and influencers in identifying, assessing, and combating disinformation." Organized by DCN Global, #ADandPRLAB, YET, funded by U.S. Department of State and U.S. Mission in Greece, supported by Found.ation and SocialInnov.